WESTERN HEMISPHERE IMMIGRATION 393

Mr. ParreN. Yes; I believe 100,000 unskilled laborers could be
mobilized in the State of South Carolina at as low a wage as a dollar
per day. Around the cotton mills there are literally dozens of men
seeking every job opportunity.
Mr. Box. You have heard the testimony here and what I read
from a report of .the business men’s commission on agriculture,
which was printed by the chamber of commerce of the United States,
to the effect that about 15,000,000 additional acres of cotton were
planted in the United States during a certain period. What effect
will an increase of 15,000,000 acres of cotton have on conditions, as
you see them?
Mr. PatreN. It has already been disastrous to the southeastern
planter and cotton cropper, in my opinion. It seems on all fours with
the introduction of negro slavery into this country a century ago,
that drove out the small cotton planter who did not have the money
to buy large tracts of fertile land and a large number of slaves, and
who has until recently been eking out in the hills and mountains a
precarious existence.
The league I have been asked to represent was founded in January
and incorporated in February, 1909, and its “Objects are to secure
the enactment and enforcement of laws to protect our citizens and
institutions by the restriction of immigration, and the safeguarding
of the ballot by more stringent naturalization laws.” It has various
branches in the Empire State, and in the State of New Jersey, which
wi regular monthly or semimonthly meetings, oven to the
public.
At present the main body meets every second and fourth Friday
in the Irving Plaza Hall, at 15 Irving Place, New York City;
the Brooklyn branch meets in the Johnson Building, on Nevins
Street, in Brooklyn, the second and fourth Thursdays; the Hudson
County branch meets the first Monday of each month in Odd Fellows
Hall, Bergen Square, Jersey City, N. J.; and the Essex County
branch meets at 248 Market Street, Newark, N. J., the third Wednesday
 of each month.
The main body of the league has about 5,000 members, many of
whom are members of various patriotic societies. It pays no salaries,
either to me, or to any of its officers, or committeemen. Its funds are
used exclusively and strictly for educational and legislative purposes.
On January 24, after careful consideration of immigration bills
then pending before this committee of Congress, the league adopted
the following resolution with reference to certain bills now before
this committee:

Whereas a hearing is to be held before the House Committee on Immigration
and Naturalization on H. R. 5645, 5646, 5747, 5648, and 6852, bills that would,
if enacted, increase immigration by increasing the nonquota classes, legalize the
intentional entrance of aliens in violation of quota restriction legislation, and
otherwise tend to weaken and impair our existing immigration policy, so necessary
for the economic wellbeing of our working people, for the security of our institutions,
 and for the general welfare of our country: Therefore be it
Resolved, That the Immigration Restriction League of New York State (Inc.),
at a regular meeting held in New York City this 24th day of January, 1930,
earnestly protest to Congress against the passage of these and all such bills as
contrary and hurtful to our whole beneficent immigration restriction policy
whose liberality is shown by the fact that during the last fiscal year 479,327 aliens
were legally admitted. over half of whom came for permanent residence, a number