It will not extend the Constitution of the United States over those islands. It will not make the Filipinos American citizens and electors. it will give them no opportonity which they did not enjoy just as fully this time last year to compete with American workingmen in the labor market. nor will it let in their products free of dnty to compete with American products. The ratification of the treaty will leave them outside the Constitution. outside the tariff. outside the immigration laws. It will not enable them to scramble over or crawl under. We may add. for the more effectual reassurement of some excessively alarmed orators. that it will not in the least affect the difference between the Philippine climate and the American climate. nor shorten by a single marine league the distance from Manila to New York.
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