In fact. during the month of February last. Kansas produced less than oneseventh of the capacity of its existing wells. The whole Nation would object if we admitted as immigrants to this country the peons of Venezuela and Mexico who produce the foreign oil which dominates. in price at least. our domestic market. We would forcefully object to any legislative proposal which would take from American workers that employment and give it to those newly admitted immigrants who have been accustomed to work for a pittance a day. With millions of Americans unemployed. we would become justly indignant at any proposal to give wellpaying jobs and positions to such a group of immigrants. We would be still more resentful if we admitted these immigrants. with their low standards of living. permitted them to displace American workers. and then granted them an exemption from all taxes which are paid today. directly or indirectly. by the same number of citizens in Kansas. When we admit the products of these men we are for all economic purposes admitting them. We are permitting them to displace that number of American citizens who might have produced an equal amount of similar products in this country.
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Generalization that Mexican and Venezuelan laborers work for a pittance and displace American workers.