Tex.. writes me under date of March 5. 1928. saying: "As a business man of long experience (more than 40 years). and chamber of commerce connection for many years. I desire to express myself as vigorously as I may. I very deeply resent the propaganda conveying the idea that the best business interests and higher class business men desire a liberal immigration of Mexicans. I deeply deplore the statement that the chambers of commerce are combating the Box bill. as I believe but a small minority do so. " I wish to say as a business man and from long observation that they ruin the country in more ways than one. Mexican cheap labor of every character has already driven out practically all negro labor in southwestern Texas. hundreds of business establishments are employing Mexlcan girls and boys at such a low wage that even a selfrespecting Mexican can not suitably live. and have. or course. displaced our American cheaper class labor almost entirely.
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Mexican cheap labor ruins the country and drives out other labor.