There has been. for causes which I shall consider later on. an awakening in the Orient to manufacturing and other industrial pursuits. which brings into competition with the Western world from 500.000.000 to 1.000.000.000 people who have been trained to industry for thousands of years and who can subsist on onefourth of the cost of the food that Europeans can in performing the same amount of labor. Their industries. their manfufactures. have at last come in direct conflict with the manufacturing industries of the Western world. There has been much debate and much argument in the United States to show the necessity of protecting the people of this country against competition with their own race. but never until recently has the question been presented between the AngloSaxon and Celtic races and the Asiatics. We have in this country made most strenuous efforts to exclude the Chinese. and have so far succeeded in doing it that there are but few left. but the invasion by the Chinese themselves. with whom it has been amply shown we can not compete. is a small matter compared with the invasion of this country by their products. The attention of the country has been recently called to the fact that Japanese agents were here offering to sell almost every description of manufactured articles below the cost of production in this country.
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The Chinese are an invasion with whom we cannot compete.