Speech #570043584

There is needed at the present time on the plantations that are now in operation at least from 10.000 to 15.000 additional Chinese laborers. One of these corporations constructed. under my direction. proper houses for these laborers to live in. with proper kitehens. etc.. with all nocessary sanitary arrangements. "I shipped to that corporation a large number of Chinese from Hongkong via San Francisco. by the Southern Pacific. Mexican Central. and Mexican International Railway companies. though not more than 20 ever reached the lantation Although their fare was paid from Hongkong to the ciaays of era Crub. by water from Hongkong to San Francisco. and by rail to era Cru. via the City of Mexico. we never succeeded in getting into the country. of the many hundreds that were shipped over 20. and those 2e at the first opportunity left. ty judgmens t t they all came north to the Unite dStates. "The inducement for these Chinese to come to the United States is the fact that all the Chinese that I shipped came from the province of Kwangtung. and all the Chinese in the United States came from the province of rwangtung. and as the tribal relation exists among the Chinese In its very strongeat form. and every Chinaman belongs to a tribe. and the tribesmen are all interested in one another. every ChihAman who comes to Mexico has some member of his tribe in the Uiited States. and that member of the tribe is drawing his tribesmen into the United States. "I have no doubt. from my experience with these people since 1890 in this immigration. that none of the Chinese to tovMexico go there with the intention of remaining. except a very few who are engaged in mercantile transactions in that country and who act as boarding house keepers cooks and waiters on the lines of the railroad companies leading out of the United States into the Republic of Mexico. "Only last year I sent an agent to the city of Torreon. which is the junction of the two leading railroads out of the United Statesthe Mexican Central and the Mexican Internationalwhere I knew there were 200 or 300 Chinese waiting to get into the United States. and offered them. though this egent. employment for from three to five years on the plantations in Vera Crusz with wages at $1 per day and their transportation from Torreon to the plantations. and we offered to advance them money enough to pay their debts. as all of them were in debt to the boarding houses at Torreon. We did not get one passenger. "There is no need of any Chinese laborers in northern Mexico. and this for many reasons. "Beginning at the west. the State of Sonora is a desert in all its northern portion. and is only fitted for mining and grazing except in a few small spots or oases. Same is the case with the State of dhihuahua. the next State. though Chihuahua is a much better grazing country than Sonora. but there is very little agricultural laud in the State of Chihuahua excepting on the banks of the Rio Grande. where they take the water out for irrigation purposes. "There is a railroad owned by the Southern Pacific Company (and connecting with the main line at Benson.