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come in here the other day—and we have many such things—telling
us that they needed 5,000 Mexicans right now in a certain valley or
they were ruined. The Labor Department took them about 1 per
cent seriously and sent them less than 200, and they were begging,
demanding that the Labor Department relieve them of the congestion
 that overloaded them with objects of charity right at once.
They found employment for 25 out of this 200.
Mr. Hart. Do you know, I have done that same thing on my
ranch? I have sent word that I needed 75 men, and before I got
the men I didn’t need them. I have had 50 acres of lettuce ready
to harvest, and in one afternoon I can get ready to plow it under.
Do you know that a frost can come in and wipe out my whole field,
end I have got to go out and pay to have it plowed under {and not
cry, either) and telephone in that I don’t need those men. I have
seen the prune industry of the Santa Clara Valley ready for a great
influx of people, and I have had my grain in the field and seen 6 inches
of rain come, and we haven’t had any need for men in either of
them. And so those things happen. But the trouble is that those
folks—and I know we have got a hard job te prove facts; I have
been in this hing long enough to know that the easiest thing on earth
is to begin to cry and wave the hand and say, ‘“Let’s be patriotic.
Let’s shut this out and shut that out.” This is the easiest thing.
Hearst makes a lot of money doing that kind of stuff, but we fellows—
EXCUSE Me——
Mr. Box (interposing). You are speaking American. We understand
 you.
Mr. Hart. I know I am, but maybe I should not; but I don’t
know any better. We fellows who have to deal in facts have a hard
job and we are not very popular. Because I can go out and make a
wonderful speech—1I kissed the blarney stone when I was little,
evidently, and I can make a wonderful speech and I know psychology
well enough to know that I can damn a corporation or two and I can
get a handclap, but let me try te show them where the corporations
are wrapped up in our problem just as much as we are, and that it is
dollars and cents to them just as it is to us, and dollars and cents to
us just as it is to them, and they will look at me like—that. Now
vou know that. ]
The CHAIRMAN. Yes; but now the reason you thought it was a good
thing to limit the Japanese and other Orientals, and you are criticizing
 the Filipino as a menace—vou were about to say something
about the Filipino?
Mr. Hart. I was about to say something about the Japanese and
the Filipino. The Japanese becomes a menace because the Japanese
has a psychology that he is as good or a little better than anybody
else, and the Japanese has a great desire to become a landowner
and one of the higher class. He feels that “we are just as good.”
But I will say this for the Japanese: He does not attack our white
women and he lives to himself, but he does come in and take possession
 of the land and own it, or did before he was excluded, and thereby
begins to crowd the white folks away from the farm. And I have no
criticism of the Japanese as a laborer. The Japanese is a good laborer,
a hard worker, and you have to pay him a good price and he has a
wonderful organization. If the labor unions of America were as well
oreanized——