However. I will agree with the gentleman that if the literacy test had been applied to the Mexican border it would have curtailed Mexican immigration. The Mexican has been most unfortunate. Of an ancestry which promises little--a mixture of native Indian with West Indian negro and Spaniardwith an environment that can hardly be expected to conduce to progress. with a political background of hundreds of years of banditry. murder. rapine. mobs. and assassinations. what can be expected of him? The socalled higher classes have utterly failed to appreciate the rights of the unfortunate. The unfortunate has been oppressed and enslaved until the peon class far exceeds the .upper class in the population.
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Mexicans are described as having an ancestry that promises little, a background of banditry, murder, rapine, mobs, and assassinations.