Because the cheap labor of the islands. subsisting mostly on rice and vegetables. would enable a few manufacturers to flood the United States with this product. thus tending to paralyze our home market. IV. Because the development of the industry in the archipelago would throw thousands of Americans employed at making cigars out of work and reduce the standard of wages to the Asiatic level. which averages from 15 cents to 95 cents per day. V. Because all barriers that now limit competition hetween these producing forces would be swept aside. and new conditos created most disastrous to the moral. social. and material welfare of the American working people. VI. Because the annexation of the Philippine Islands will not change the Asiatic habits and customs of the laboring population. but will. in course of time. reduce the American standard of living to a level bordering on pauperism. VII. Because the welfare of 150.000 employees and small manufacturers and their families. depending upon this industry for a living in the United States. is of vastly more importance to the nation than the increase of commerce expected by a few commercial centers. VIII. Because it would nullify. in substance. the Chinese exclusion act. the alien contract labor law. and immigration laws. for which organized labor has contended for the last twentyfive years.
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The paragraph generalizes that the laboring population of the Philippine Islands subsists mostly on rice and vegetables and that their habits and customs will reduce the American standard of living to a level bordering on pauperism.