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Enclosure in Mr.Cummins' Despatch No.13, 8th January, 1920.
ΤΟ THE PEOPLE OF GUAYMAS.
The Municipality over which I have the honour to preside desiring to express the feelings of all our social classes in connection with the Chinese problem, adopted the following Resolution by a large majority in extraordinary
session held yesterday:
We consider it one of the principal necessities for the progress of the State that all Chinese elements should abandon our territory as, besides absorbing the commerce of
the State and consequently its riches, they have come to be
one of the most serious menaces to the healthy preservation
of our race; we consider also that their agressive egoism, one of their principal characteristics, has reached the point of ignoring our laws, extending its grasp over all parts of the State, absorbing not only the labours performed by men but also those proper to women, the Chinese possessing in this respect the advantage that they offer their work (whether manual or otherwise) for a ridiculously low wage.
It is therefore resolved that the President of
the Republic, the Senate and the Governor of the State be notified of the above and that the motive of our patriotic attitude is based on the conflict which has developed between our people and the Chinese commercial element.
I hereby acquaint all the inhabitants of the Municipality that we desire by means of legal proceedings to place a barrier to the menacing invasion of the Chinese race that has lately assumed serious proportions for, sheltering themselves behind the liberality of our laws, they not only
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