I am thoroughly convinced that there are enough Mexicans lolling idly in the warm sun of the cities of the Southwest to do ll the labor required in that whole section by working onehalf time. while they work only about onethird of the time now. There are thousands traveling the roads as itinerant vagrants who will never become an asset to the man power of our country. Why keep out the bright young immigrants from the countries of Europe and permit these unassimnilable vagrants to come into the country? By song and ballad the negro has been identified with tme cotton fields and the waternelon patches of the South and Southwest for enerations. The story of the heroic plainsmen of Texas has purred our youth to high resolves to be courageous and valorous ever since the day of Sam Houston and Davy Crockett. but each of these admirable classes of our population has been driven from his throne by the sinister. silent flood of Mexican immigration that has washed him far back from his once secure moorings. In fact. the negro has been supplanted almost altogether by the Mexican in the territory 200 miles north of the Rio Grande. And the plainsman lias receded before the onrush of Mexicans that have supplanted his cattle ranches with cotton fields which yield a larger return to the big plantation mn of the Southwest. and the plainsmnan has now lost himself in the population of the large cities or has moved on to the highlands of the Northwest.