The opinion therein expressed is unquestionably correctthat if the beetsugar industry was encouraged it would grow. so that it would supply the American market. and Mr. Coffin says the sugar trust would be a thing of the past and its occupation gone. But it is said we need not fear Hawaiian competition for the reason that our labor laws will apply to that country and that Asiatic labor will no longer be employed upon the plantations. I showed the other day that the AngloSaxon does not toil within the Tropics. that there are no settlements of AngloSaxons in the world anywhere within 220 of the equator. that there are none employed in toil upon these islands. and that there never will be any. But is the dream that Asiatic labor will not be employed founded upon any fact to justify entertaining it? We made a treaty in 1894 with Japan. by which she is placed upon an equal footing with all other nations. and her people can come to the United States the same as people can come from France or Germany or England and engage in any of the occupations of this country. and that treaty is to run for twelve years. and here are some of its provisions:
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The Anglo-Saxon does not toil within the Tropics.