I have answered it. I said that instead of Americanizing it you will destroy it. I do not believe in contract labor anywhere. I have come now to the end of my time. and I can not submit to any further interruption. Briefly. to resume what has been said. the most vital question now before the American people is not whether they will make a profit more or less in any particular branch of business. but the question is more farreaching. it is a wider question. It is the question of whether there shall be pursued in Cuba a policy which will attract and bring to her people who shall renew her life and make her cease to be the thorn in our side that Cuba has been for the last fifty or one hundred years. it is whether there shall be created in that island a condition which will people it with those who will be a help to us instead of a hindrance. a people who will help us to carry out the agreements that we have made for the independence of Cuba and for her freedom from foreign control. it is whether she shall be made the home of the cooly or the home of the independent farmer and citizen.
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