106 WESTERN HEMISPHERE IMMIGRATION

“There are too many Mexicans coming into this country to such an extent as
to injure the chances for an American to secure fair employment.”—Loran L.
Palmerton, justice of the peace, Loyalton, Calif.
‘If this influx of Mexicans to the United States is not checked or stopped, it
is going to badly oppress the American working man.”—A. L. Hill, farmer,
route No. 1, Hollister, Calif.
“The increase in Mexican population over a period of 12 years is about 1,300
per cent.”—Chas. Curnow, restaurant owner, Miami, Ariz.
“The permanent Mexican population in this territory is constantly increasing.”—H.
 M. Brown, mine broker, Miami, Ariz.
‘Mexican immigration is fast overwhelming and fast blotting out white
civilization in this region.”—Harry Cross, deputy sheriff, Superior, Ariz.
“We are very much in favor of restricting Mexican immigration and feel our
immigration laws relating to Mexicans are 10 years behind the times. The
influx of Mexican population which far exceeds the growth of American population
 is a very great problem which we are now facing. It will become even
greater if something is not done in the near future to remedy the situation.” —
C. R. Holbrook, superintendent city schools, San Bernardino, Calif.
“Seven Mexican couples will have about 56 children. The children of these
families will eventually number about 190. The white man is having his day and
California may be the stage on which he will have to fight his last fight.” —W, H,
Marquis, fruit grower, of Monrovia, Calif.
“High Mexican birth rates have long been a problem in southern California
and Doctor Dickie (head of the State department of health) believes that the
northern counties are now beginning to show the same conditions.”’—Henry
Presser, Berkeley, Calif. .
‘Mexican birth-rate is so high and Mexican immigration so great that it
appears not far distant when this will be a Mexican territory.”—W. W. Fenton,
city health officer, San Bernardino, Calif.
‘We have had on our relief rolls, families of from 10 to 14, 15, and 16 children.
They multiply into these figures compared with American families of 2, 3,
and 4.”—SBacramento Church Federation, Sacramento, Calif.
“Average number of children 10.”—W., B. Wells, city and county health
officer, Riverside, Calif.
The census reports, supplemented by much other indisputable data, show
that the movement of alien Mexican immigration to the United States began
in a noticeable, but at first small, volume 30 years ago, and that the movement
has been rapidly increasing from decade to decade. The causes which produce
it continue to operate in full force, while the checking of immigration from other
countries tends to increase it. To the student inquiring whether this influx will
continue in large volume, unless checked by law, its history during recent decades
and an understanding of its causes, give only an affirmative answer.
MEXICANS BREED MORE RAPIDLY THAN AMERICANS

Several hundred inquiries were addressed to physicians and others having
special opportunities to observe the numbers of children born to Mexican parents
and the size of their families. These requests brought 324 replies on this point,
of which 244 answered that Mexicans do have larger families than our own
people and 80 report that they do not. The preponderance in the number of
reports showing that they have larger families is greater in those reports coming
from States where Mexicans are most numerous and are best known. Illustrating
 this are Arizona, whose 11 reports on the subject are unanimously in the
affirmative; California, 70 of whose 77 reports on the point show that Mexican
families are larger; and Texas and New Mexico, reports from which show above
an average number of affirmative replies; while reports on the point from Ohio
and Oklahoma show an equal number of negative and affirmative answers. A
majority of the replies from Michigan give a negative answer. In States like
Michigan and Ohio, near the Canadian line, this immigration is newer and consists
more of men who are either unmarried or have left their families behind.
The rapidity with which these Mexican peon people multiply greatly increases
the menace which this immigration brings.

IT. CHARACTER OF THE MIGRATING MEXICANS

Mexico has a population of approximately 15,000,000, a very small part of
which is the upper and ruling class of people of pure Spanish descent. Almost
none of the superior white people of Mexico are migrating. The most ignorant.