How is it with the agricultural products? The capacity of the Philippines for the production of sugar is practically unlimited. With that tropical climate and the cheap Asiatic labor. unlimited in supply. organized with American capital and directed by American brains. it would be impossible for the American sugar producer to compete with Philippine sugar. It has been confidently predicted that the canesugar and beetsugar industry could be so developed in the United States that it would supply the immense quantity consumed in this country. Fond anticipations have been indulged that the day was near at hand when this would be done. But the sugar industry is absolutely doomed in the United States when the sugar business becomes actively developed in the Philippines. The same thing is true of rice growing and of tobacco culture. .1309 With tropical soil and climate and unlimited cheap Asiatic labor it would be impossible for either rice or tobacco to be grown in America and sold in competition with it. When that time comes. the rice and tobacco culture must be absolutely abandoned in the United States. As to longstaple cotton. there is no doubt that it can be successfully raised in Luzon.
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Cheap Asiatic labor will make it impossible for American producers to compete.