Georgia and the Southeastern States can not raise cotton as cheaply as the cotton producers of Texas and Oklahoma. where the great increase in the production of cotton has been the past few years. as we are compelled to use fertilizers. They employ cheap Mexican labor to help them in cultivating and gathering the cotton and do not have to buy fertilizers. As a member of the Immigration Committee I have been most active and shall continue my efforts to prevent all immigration into our country. Except for the law we passed restricting immigration. there would be several million foreigners coming here every year. It is the most important law passed in recent years. We need our country for our own people and their descendants. When the immigration bill was before the Senate I offered an amendment prohibiting the importation of Mexican labor. It is not fair or just to Georgia and the southeastern cottonproducing States to let this cheap labor come in from Mexico to Texas and other States. At the next session of Congress I shall again urge that the Mexicans be prevented from coming into this country.
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