The quicker we get rid of the Philippines the better off the laborers will be. the better off we will all be. If we do not speedily unload these accursed islands. the day is not far distant when all of us. especially the laborers of the land. will in agony of soul exclaim. "Who will deliver us from the body of this death?" Should it be decided that the free locomotion of the inhabitants of the Philippines can not be restrained. the yellow flood will pour in and utterly submerge the laborers of America. Our retention of the Philippines means a reduction of wages to the Asiatic level. That is one of the main reasons why I was opposed to acquiring them and why I am dead against keeping them. That the longc.r we keep them the harder it will be to get rid of them is a proposition too plain to be argued. Let no nan hug to his breast the delusion that Asiatics can work only as unskilled laborers. for the evidence in the case flatly
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Asiatics will reduce wages to an Asiatic level.