My name Is EUGENE BLACK and I represent the first congressional district of the State of Texas. I wish to record my airport of the Box bill. which is to place under quota restrictions certain countries In the Western Hemisphere. which at the present time are exempted from the quota restrictions by subdivision (c). section (4) of the immigration act of 1924. The Texas papers carried an account of my reply to the West Texas Chamber of Commerce. and since then I have received a good many letters commending my stand. One of these is from a school superintendent of a town in west Texas. and. among other things. he says: "Permit me to congratulate you upon your stand in favor of Mr. Boxs plan for restricting Mexican immigration and against the selfish. nearsighted. provincial policy of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce as expressed in Secretary Wades communication to you. " I assure you that the attitude of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce is not representative of the opinion of a majority of the people of west Texas. It is founded. in my opinion. upon the overwilling desire of a few to boost. as they think. this section at any cost. Personally. I think the cost is too high. "I have had many opportunities to observe the deleterious effects of Mexican immigration upon the schools. community. and farm life of weAt Texas. I have lived In west Texas since 1906 and have seen the vast increase in Mexican population in that time. I have seen whole conimunities become Mexicanized. great plantations once farmed by whites. now tilled by exclusively Mexican labor.
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