On the “reconquista”, 1914
14 October 2007
Labor organizer and “Grandmother of all agitators” (as she was once called in the U.S. Senate, leading her to rejoinder, “I hope I live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators” — she did, living to the ripe old age of 93, after having killed a mugger at the age of 88) Mary Harris “Mother” Jones came to El Paso in January 1914 to address workers complaining about Mexicans “stealing” American jobs.
Old enough to remember the Mexican-American War of 1846-48, Jones replied:
“You voted for the pirates that went down into Mexico and took land away from them. You gave the Mexicans hell, so they have a right to give you hell.”
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