I have wondered how long such an intervention would last. how long it would take to pacify conditions there. what our relations with the rest of America would be. what would be the state of our relations -with the other South American Republics after such an intervention. and then I have wondered. if it should go still further and amount to something more permanent and serious. how much our race problem would be complicated. how our already numerous and serious problems of that kind would be multiplied by the addition of many millions of ignorant Mexicans to those who are to live under our flag. The West has a serious question. It is a race question. it is an immigration question. I might have said that the South has a race question. but that question. like the one in California. is a national one. We have a race question in. the South and in the North as between the white and black races.
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Mexicans are described as ignorant and a problem for the US.