FAMILY FARMS BETTER FOR SHARING WEALTH

Editor, MNH: (9/25/01): I want to take issue with a

number of statements I found in the article,

A.,C. strive to welcome, help Mexicans" (NH, Aug. 23).

According to the controller of A. Foods:

"...the company relies on the Mexican workers to

make the company profitable." My feeling is that

Mexican workers have nothing above and beyond

the native Wisconsin workers. What makes the

company profitable is that the Mexicans are willing

to accept lower wages.

I quote the manager for B.F.: All 10 of his

employees are Mexican ...Seventy-five percent of

the workers are illegal, ...but the farm is trying to

legalize all workers." My comment: We, the people

of central Wisconsin, are not paragons of law abid-

ing citizens. There is plenty of law breaking in and

outside of Marshfield. But up to now; one thing I

have never come across, namely; that one of us

would brazenly admit that he broke the law, and

then tries to work the political circuits to legalize an

illegal action. I am afraid we common folks would-

n't get away with it.

I quote again: " (The Mexicans) come to work and

they respect the man who writes the check." My

comment: I always thought money given for work

rendered is a tit for tat. Respect is owed to every-

body, but why should special respect be given to the

man who pays for what he owes. I quote Branstiter:

"(The Mexican parents) don't want their kids to do

what they are doing." In that the Mexican parents

are no different from other parents. We all want the

best for our children. But my question is who in the

coming years is then going to milk the cows?

Needless to say; Mexican immigrants who work

in agriculture work mostly for agri-businesses of

which I have nothing good to say. A society in which

many have something is a stable society. A few hav-

ing a lot predisposes to instability.

In 1919 when Germany was impoverished by

one of the harshest treaties in history, Lenin must

have thought that Germany was ripe for the pick-

ing. He supported his Jewish, Communist agents in

Germany who established a number of Soviet

Republics with which to annex Germany to the

Soviet empire. These Republics were quickly over-

thrown because they were not supported by the

many who had a little. Germany was a nation of

many small family farms (only East Prussia had

large estates). It was unfortunate for Spain that

there a few had a lot. When Stalin tried to take over

Spain with the help of the Communist party; the

Spaniards had to suffer a bloody civil war (1936-

1939) before the threat of a Communist takeover

was eliminated. Let us support our family farms.