CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920 — Page 189

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violate them openly but have persisted in carrying out their designs, even to the point of insolence.

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This serious danger to our nationality, to the progress of Mexican commerce and to the preservation of our health, threatened by the infusion of the sickly blood of the yellow race, is clearly manifested in the complete monoply of the sources of our national wealth and in the powerful hold that this element is acquiring throughout our State.

This Municipality is ready to lend all its support to the carrying out of this Resolution and hopes to find in the people the intelligence of which they have so often given proof.

as well, as the firmness and deter- mination necessary for the realization of this object.

All the Municipalities of our State, as well as those of Sinaloa. • • • • •

.have adopted an attitude

similar to ours, They count also on the support of the majority in Congress which is at the present moment discussing the intention of abrogating the Treaty of Friend- ship and Commerce that was celebrated between this country and China twenty years ago..

Guaymas, Sonora,

23rd December, 1919.

(Signed.) Carlos L. Alvarez.

Municipal President.