But we had a great dream of profit. of wealth. and of the inestimable blessings which would flow to the American people by the possession of the Philippine Archipelago as the doorway to the East. If you take the money we have spent and put it out at interest. it would yield a far larger sum than any possible profit that will ever come to us as a people. Some franchises may be granted to sugar planters. tobacco growers. cotton growers. or rice growers. some contract laborers may be imported from China who will workfor the Senator from Indiana says the Filipinos will notwho will be driven by the whip. as the slaves were in the South before the war. and as they are now driven in Hawaii. to develop the rich lands of which we have heard. and there may be teeming imports coming to our country from such labor thus employed and protected by our bayonets. and the few will reap the benefits. Those bayonets must be supported by taxation. and the taxation will be paid by the laboring classes of the United States. the common. everyday citizens. The benefit of .the wealth will flow into the coffers of the capitalists or corporations who go out there and invest their capital. but the everyday taxpayer of the United States will never see one dollars profit from the Philippine Islands.
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Chinese laborers will work for low wages and be driven by the whip.