We sought protection from their competition by our antialien land laws. And now we are contemplating giving them the Colorado River to reestablish in the Imperial Valley of Mexico a more dangerous competition than existed in our own country. and in the Imperial Valley of California... Asiatic competition in Mexico. on lands irrigated from the. Colorado River. will ruin every fruit grower. and every producer of melons. vegetables. and garden or farm products in Arizona and Southern California who is dependent on a local market in those States. Every American farmer in any of. the intermountain States or in Nevada or Utah. looking to the Southwest for a market will find it absorbed by these Asiatic competitors in Mexico.. The products from this Asiatic agriculture in Mexico will rub shoulders in competition with the products of American farms anywhere. which yield the same products and seek the same market. Every American producer will have to pay the American wages while his Asiatic competitors below the line in Mexico will pay the Asiatic wages. or cultivate their own little garden farms each for his own living according to their Asiatic standards. which is the most dangerous form of this rural competition. Asiatic competition will put out of business every citrus fruit grower in southern California as soon as the citrus fruit lands in Mexico Irrigable from the Colorado River can be brought into bearing. The great level mesa extending far to the east from the Colorado River in the State of Sonora in Mexico is the finest citrus fruit belt in the world. It is several hundred thousand acres in extent. and large areas can be irrigated with a very low lift of from 50 to 100 feet from the Colorado River. The Japanese. with their immaculate orchards. will see to it that no ban (in their products is maintained. and the efforts to secure tariff protection would end as it failed when the effort was made to get protection for lemons and longstaple cotton. Asiatic competition will cut heavily into the ocean commerce of the city of Los Angeles. because the Japanese. encouraged by their new treaty with Mexico. and to the great advantage of Mexico. will establish a competing world seaport on the Gulf of California. on the southern shore of this great citrus fruit mesa. They will give cheaper rail and water rates than Los Angeles to the markets of the world for all the products of the orchards. vineyards. gardens. farms. factories. mills. and mines of the Imperial Valley. the whole Colorado River country. and the ultimate Southwest. Their oceangoing steamships will return laden with imports for that vast territory.