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raternal, patriotic society, standing for “Americanism and all it implies,
 honest, loyal, true allegiance to American principles, traditions,
and ideals at all times, supporting unqualifiedly the American publicschool
 system, believing in loyal hrotherhood and man-to-man squareness,
 and practicing practical relief to its sick, disabled, and needy,”
and having, “paid over half million dollars in death benefits,” according
 to its publications.
In conclusion may I say that the two lines of argument advanced
at these hearings against this needed legislation restricting immigration
 from countries of this Hemisphere have been worn threadbare
 before this committee and before Congress every time any one
of the existing immigration restriction or exclusion laws was passed,
from half a century ago when the Chinese were excluded to the
nore recent enactment of the illiteracy test and quota legislation,
when, as now, attorneys and employment officers of big industrial
and transportation corporations told this committee in person and
by letter, and the country through the press, that excluding the
Chinese coolie, the illiterate Greek, Italian, and Mexican would
each and every time absolutely labor-starve and kill their industries,
only for you, Congress, the country and even they to find out after
sach restrictive measure that their particular industries and indus-“rial
 activities have been given a new lease of life, made more effisient,
 and financially more able to pay greater salaries and greater
dividends than ever before in their history, just as the United States
was, in each instance, on even and ever better terms and our citizens
and property better treated and more respected after their immisrants
 were restricted or even excluded by the foreign nations
affected by the restrictive legislation. I can not help feeling that
now, as in the past, the fears of the sntirestrictionists will prove
squally imaginary, and that such a “labor scarcity’ as at present
alleged, will, if it occurs, prove to be the necessity for inventing
labor-saving devices unknown in lands of surplus cheap labor, like
China, that will even further increase the many more good things
of life a person can get in the United States than a day’s labor,
whether brawn or brain, can get in any other land.
I thank you.
The CuARMAN. We thank you for your statement.
Mr. Parren. May I intrude to include a typical editorial reflectng
 public sentiment?
The CHAIRMAN. If there is no objection it is so ordered.
(The editorial referred to is here printed in full as follows:)
{Adrian (Michigan) Daily Telegram, February 3, 1930]
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Last week a bomb was exploded on the porch of a Filipino club house at
Stockton, Calif. It was one more incident in a series of racial attacks on Filipinos
n that region, in which one Filipino has been killed, many beaten, and-a white
man stabbed.
This disorder is the direct result of the influx of low-grade Philippine labor.
There are 15,000 Filipinos in Stockton, where contractors furnish such labor
for certain agricultural work. Their presence is resented by the whites, who say
shat the foreigners with their low wages and low standard of living are taking
away white men’s jobs and causing unemployment. The employers say they
have to have such cheap labor.
At the same time spokesmen for various interests are telling the House committee
 on immigration at Washington that cheap Mexican labor is needed and
od he admitted. Farmers. especially large-scale operators. in the southwest