According to the views of the antiexpansionists. the proposed expansion involves the danger of the destruction of our nation and our form of society. According to the views of the ardent expansionists. if we fail to accept the present opportunity. we will lose for our country the greatest commercial advantages ever offered to any nation by a single act. According to the views of the antiexpansionists. the acquisition of the Philippine Islands involves the possible and probable immigration of the natives of those islands to our present shores in competition with the labor of our land. as well as the lowering of wages of labor and degradation of labor itself. According to the views of the expansionists. the acquisition of the Philippine Islands will be the obtaining of a strategic outpost which will some day enable our country more easily to succeed in the inevitable future conflict across the Pacific Ocean between the white and the yellow races. and enable us to keep out of our land the overflowing hordes of cheap Chinese laborers which. with the opening of China. will endeavor to spread out over the world. Mr.
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Chinese laborers are described as a horde that will overflow into the country and lower wages.