Gentlemen have told us that have appeared as witnesses the reason why that is true. it is because the labor of that island is now all employed in the cultivation of onetenth. and without we add ninetenths in addition. with all the advantages that are conceivable in a fertile soil. with a climate such as that of Cuba. there is an inexorable limitation put on them. It is a want of labor. We experienced a diffitulty of this kind. and while we had unoccupied land in the United States we invited immigration. There were no restrictions until the farms were occupied. until all our vast public domain susceptible of unaided cultivation was under the domain of the homesteader. Now. what are we proposing to do to Cuba? Their great want jtst now is laborpopulation. We say to them. we will give you this pittance of $10.000.000 provided you will adopt our exclusion laws. our contractlabor laws. our immigration laws that we would not tolerate. that the people of the United States gave no indorsement to until the tentenths of our lands had been brought under the plow. We propose to be a great sugarproducing State. but we say to Cuba that by this legislation you must limit -your output to 850.000 tons. although her soil is capable. if these restrictions are not put upon her. of producing 5.000.000 tons. And we do that in the name of charity and kindliness!
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