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here now, and from their present birth rate there will continue to be an everincreasing
 number. Unless the death rate becomes much higher the gdults will.
not diminish in number and will be able to enter the laboring ranks-ferjyears
to come. For this reason it would seem that the labor problem would Adjust.
itself in due course. I am not saying it might not cause some inconvenience,
but it is worth the sacrifice for our future good. Would any of us care to go
back to the good old days of our old immigration laws?
During the past four years I have watched the habits of these Mexicans,
and they are mostly nomadic. Very few families take root, which we all know
is the only means by which they could be assimilated if such is at all possible.
Their living conditions are rudimentary, and if they are left to their own resources
you can find them hibernating in little huts along a ditch bank. I have yet to
see the white man that cares to associate or live in a neighborhood of our average
 laboring Mexicans. Yet the children have to rub elbows with them daily
in the schools. Some of these men who are lamenting about the proposed
quotas should have to go out and associate with these Amerinds a while so they
could come closer to the social feature of this problem. It is one thing to have
your field full of these laborers under your thumb and another thing to have
them as a part of your citizenship. Sooner or later the mental dormancy of these
people will be cast aside and their docility in the field may also change, much
to the chagrin of those who feel their number should be increased without
limitation.
I do not have the time to go into all the social features of this problem but
anyone that can study birth statisties will find a wonderful field along this line.
The only word that I could use in describing the birth rates is to say that it is
terrific. Just what problems it will work to in the future I am not qualified
to say, but the Mexican problem in the Southwest has the earmarks of equaling
the negro problem in the South. One need not say more to impress its importance
upon everyone. And I am not saying this idly. Go to Los Angeles, to Xl Paso,
and the average community in southern California and make your count of the
Mexicans. Think in terms of the future of the white race and then answer the
question of restricted immigration from Mexico.
The fact that these Mexicans live a rather hand-to-mouth existence makes their
presence in our country all the more a problem. We are an average valley
community and I asked our two banks here what percentage of their deposits
were Mexican. They said less than 1 per cent. The average size of their
accounts was given as $50 or less. What do these people do when they face an
illness or any duration Ask our county hospital. Then also ask the indigent
officer the proportion of Mexican appeals to white appeals: you will get further
enlightenment.
Let us look at this restriction matter as a problem that has to be solved sooner
or'later. The quicker a start is made, the sooner will we have a solution. Unrestricted
 immigration is just a pallative to certain industries at the expense of all
society here in the Southwest. It is building on a questionable foundation with
a great specter out in the distance that ever comes closer. That specter is
an increasing social problem that will drag us down. It will impose upon us
expenditures that must come from taxation—but the Mexicans won't be the
taxpayers.
There may be those who believe that Mexicans represent Spanish antecedents,
aut this idea should be dispelled. For the most part the Mexicans used in field
bor are Indians native to that country with just a dash of Spanish blood obtained
 from God knows where. For this reason their intelligence is low and their
civilization rudimentary. Spain may have settled Mexico, but the blood from
‘hese settlers has never been able to penetrate the vast Indian horde that comorise
 the basis for the field labor which the corporation growers want to pass
‘reely into this country through its back door. These Mexicans are “ Amerinds,”
not Mexicans of Spanish descent, and that is the why of the problem.
I want to tell you what the idea is about the type of citizenry Mexicans make.
Here in this city are three physicians and in our business we make it a point to
mention the births. In putting the question to the physicians as to the births for
she week they say, “Oh, yes; I had so and so’s white baby and a couple of Mexisans,
 but you don’t care anything about the Mex.” Remember the Mexicans that
are given unlimited immigration are not known as whites. Let some goodsized
 growers’ organization lobbyist answer that. Why aren't these Mexicans
whites? Because they are Amerinds.
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