208 WESTERN HEMISPHERE IMMIGRATION

The CuatrmaN. We admit all that.
Mr. Hart. And he does not run around with white women.
The CrarrmaN. We have to deal here with the races of people of
the world. We don’t criticize this race and that race.
Mr. Hart. Now we are not going to do like those old Senators did
and make snap judgment, but you have got the Oriental, and there
is no man but what will admit that he can not mix with us—and by
the Oriental I mean the Filipino and the Japanese and the Chinese—
and nobody wants him to come over here and inhabit the country
and take it; but on the other hand, you have got-the Portuguese—
[ don’t mean the Portuguese, but the Porto Rican, the black man,
and he is over here and he is a citizen and he can, if he is brought, or
if he so wills, he can come in, and here we have a migrating class of
people that have settled our country and have lived in it and have
made good citizens and they can’t come in and yet they fit into our
condition—I wish you would come out there and let me take you
through that country and show you some of these things. I know
are too busy, but somebody ought to be able to come farther than
Ogden, somebody who is appointed to investigate, that when we ask.
him to come down there and let us show him, won’t say, “I know
all about it. I don’t need to go out there. I can meet your every
argument without going out there,” when we ask him to come down
there and let us show him. I would like you to come and see.
The CrarMAN. That is the penalty that the Pacific Coast States
suffer by being so far away.
Mr. Hart. I know it is a long, cold way.
The Crairman. However, some members of this committee have
been through California studying this itinerant labor situation.
Mr. Hart. I know some of you folks like the country you live in
and you don’t want to come there because I tell people if you ever
come you will never want to live anywhere else. I understand that
all right, but those are things that the Lord put there and we can’t
help it. But I do wish you would come and if I appear to be a little
overearnest I want you to know it is only because I am very much
interested in this problem.
Mr. Box. I am sure the committee likes earnest men, whether we:
agree with them or not.
Mr. Hart. I am interested in this problem. It has not been over
three years that I had only one suit of clothes. I have got two now.
[ did have three but one wore out. I am going to get another when
[ get back home, so my wife says.
The Cuairman. Is there much unemployment in the city of
Salinas?
Mr. Harr. Well, when I want help I have a hard job getting it.
If I want, for instance, a tractor driver I have just got to hunt and
hunt and hunt to get one.
The CrairMAN. Now, are these seed houses, the industry you speak
of, employing Mexican labor?
' Mr. Harr, No, sir; they are employing white labor. The packing
house employs white labor and white women. The cannery employs
white people. Mexican labor is employed on the ranch, doing what.
we call “stoop labor,” that he is fitted for and would rather do.