It will. and it therefore follows that the competition will first begin in the markets of China. * * * The prices paid a Chinese laborer are starvation prices to the American laborer. but the price of Chinese food is in proportion to the price of Chinese labor. and the money is received and the ood eaten with contentment. * * * It is certain that there can be produced in China a much superior grade of cotton to that now produced. and with improved machinery Chinese cotton mills will be able to supply the demand for a finer quality of cotton goods. as they are now supplying the demand for the more inferior quality. In another report he informs us that "the poorest families will live on 50 cash apiece per diem. which at the present rate of exchange is about 3 cents." In this report of the commerce of China we are informed "that the cotton industry and cotton demand in China are an especially important subject in considering that country from the standpoint of American commerce. Cotton and cotton goods form the largest item of our exports to China." Much as I am in favor of an exclusion act. I desire to place on record my opposition to section 2 in its present form. which provides that the prohibition of Chinese immigration shall apply to those born in our insular possessions since their acquisition. and those who may be born there hereafter. We have no right to prevent the free transit of any person born in the insular possessions whose parents have a permanent residence and domicile therein. be they Mestizos or Chinese. It should seem unnecessary for me to argue that our insular possessions are not foreign territory.
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