Arizona republican., 1912-04-04
Mexican Miners Declare a Great Injustice Would Be Done by Kin
 ney Measure
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 SERIOUS MENACE
Meetings Have Been Held and Protest Against Its Passage Will
 Be Presented
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HAYDEN. April 3-MeXican cit ! izens of Ray have been holding
 Kinney bill every night since Mon- day. More than two thousand gath
 cred last night with a band and speeches and signed a monster pc tition begging that d provision giving consideration to people who have been residents of this section for two hundred years. Many miners
 not qualified in English have fam flies living in Arizona that subsist on wages sent from here. But q majority have families with them. Ray Consolidated employs fifteen hundred Mexicans who support q
 population of seven thousand in
 Sonora.
 The protestors believe the treaty under which Mexico ceded this sec ton of the country to the United States is broken if the measure be- undertaking to mould the voters in the state into body to defeat any person or measure which seeks to arouse prejudice. This element holds the balance of power in this and some other counties
 man in a speech last night said if the United States intervened in Mexico this act Of a border state would make the struggle bitterer than could be conceived Another said that anxiety was premature. for .e tT Ia In the world would return and the American people would never com init the gross iniquity of driving peaceful people from their homes.
 The band played national airs and the audience uncovered at the Star Spangled Banner. No bitterness was displayed. It was q friendly congre- gltion to fight against an impending calamity with whatever strength it could muster.
 American residents are stirred up locally realizing that if obnoxious re- strictions are placed upon the com pany it cannot continue on large scale but will be compelled to cur tail it's output until high grade ore is exhausted and forego the eX- traction Of low grades for all time. The camp is twelve years old and has shut down twice since it first started but if now in a fair way permanent operation Inspiration and Live Oak are similar propositions which banked on Mexican labor but are so low in grade that abandon ment under the proposed restrictions is not improbable
 When the petition leaves here it will have the fervent wish of every American that it will have some weight. Property values will decline and great harm will be done if the only condition under which the camp can survive is destroyed. The com pany is taking no steps in any way and no official has expressed an opinion of the bill to the people or said what the prospects for a con tinuance of work would be if Mex jeans are excluded from working un- der ground. The general belief is that the camp will shut down, throw ing more than a thousand Americans out of work and putting three thou sand Mexicans from their homes. Other and similar sections in Arizona are in the same frame of mind re- garding the states greatest indus try which, it is believed. is on the eve of receiving heavy blow A demonstration by the people of both races is planned for tomorrow night in Ray and all efforts possible will be made to show the legislative bod ies in Phoenix what d grievous wrong they contemplate.