Thelabor in Cuba is all employed. they can not get labor enough to produce anything like 2.000.000 tons. It takes all their labor to produce the present crop900.000 tons. But the suggestion has been made "if you make this reduction of 20 per cent the sugar growers in Cuba will bring over Asiatic labor. and so increase the production of sugar by a resort to this lower rate of wages." But. gentlemen. we have guarded you on that point. We have been looking out for the protection of American industry all the time. And so we have incorporated in the bill as a condition precedent that the Cubans must pass and enforce contractlabor. exclusion. and immigration laws as exclusive as those of the United States. So that they can not introduce any Asiatic labor. and can not in that way increase the production of sugar. It can be increased in only a very small degreeso small as not to reduce the price of sugar in the United States. But what they may do in that direction can not take off a scintilla of protection which the sugar people now have.
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