The tobacco industry of the Philippine Islands is today a formidable one. With the tobacco plantations supervised by expert tobacco growers from this country and cultivated by the Chinese cooly. the possibilities of the islands in that direction may be expected to give the planter of this country considerable concern. The Philippine Islands. left to the natives. will maintain their own people in comfort. but will supply little for the worlds trade. but with the island lands in the possessionof large corporate interests. cultivated by Chinese coolies under the control of labor bosses. the result would become disastrous to our Southern States and our Western beetgrowing States. as well as to that class of our citizens which works at the manufacture of cotton goods and tobacco. The provision of this bill denying the Chinese in the Philippine Islands admission to the United States is a most important one in the light of the conditions now existing in those islands. It is very doubtful if we can enact any law that will successfully keep the Chinese laborer out of the islands.