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Show Common Sense fat Mexico i : I The United States has been rti-cclvlngsome rti-cclvlngsome mighty flno tomatoes' raised by Mexican peon labor beforo American tomatores were rlpo. I Mexican peon labor Is largely cm-1 ployed In our country to make tho beet sug crops, to work In mines and smolters and oro crushors. Over half a million Mexican laborers labor-ers aro employed, on railroads and ranches and In Industries of our country and no harm Is done. Wo road a great deal about tho I Mexican peons being dispossessed of I their homes through great grants of i lands to Americans and others. j These grants have been devolopcd ' by oil companies, mining and smelting smelt-ing companies, live stock and cotton and rubber plantations. The Mexican peon has been given employment in his own country by American capital and who can honestly hon-estly say any great harm was donoT I Eastern newspapers keep senMmcn tilling about the Mexican peon being be-ing mado homjjess by American; coS pqrntlons .and exploited by capital. I it two blades of grass were mado to grow for ono. If steady Tvbrk were , given In plnco of none, If dollars 1' were .created out of dormant resources, resour-ces, who has been hancd.?, ,. '. , . If a pcoplo that prefer cock flght-IngT flght-IngT bull tights",' gamblng nd. ban-dlttlng ban-dlttlng to honest industry are grad-ually grad-ually taught habits of industry and conyered Into wage earners, they are on the high road to becoming usotul . self supporting citizens. "-That'ls the i cpramonsense of all tho 'socialistic talk about exploiting Mexico Mex-ico with American capital. |
