Speech #710163071

I extended my travels entirely across the State of Oklahoma. through the middle and .western parts of Kansas. nearly twice across the beetsugar producing areas of Colorado. and the full length of New Mexico. Nearly all of that travel was done in an automobile which afforded me and my assistants opportunities to make stops and side trips wherever there appeared to be opportunity to observe the Mexican peon migration and its effect upon the communities into which it was pouring. The claim that these peons should be admitted in large numbers because their labor is ndeded on farms. on railroads. iD mines. in industry. and elsewhere. is a repetition of the arguments which have been made by the same or kindred interests against every proposition to restrict immigration from Asia and Europe throughout the struggles of the country to protect itself against the perils which such immigration has threatened and in disturbing measure. actually brought. In every instance. after the country became aroused and carried its restrictive policy farther. such action has proven that the claims of the objectors were unfounded. A look into the facts of the present situation convincingly argues. as experience has in other instances proven. that sound economic policy harmonizes with the demands of racial. social. and political reasons for restriction.