Mr. President. They came from Japan. they came as slave laborers. contract laborers. The percentage of Americans down thereis less now than it was lastyear. and while their number has not increased at all. the Asiatics have increased 6.000. I went to these islands last summer. and on the boat on which I traveled there were 500 Japanese. 80 of whom were women and 420 men. and they were contract laborers. Now. let us see who toils upon the plantations. Here is the nationality of males by the census of 1896 and the number of laborers on the sugar estates in 1895 and 1896.
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