Now. it is said that three or four years ago the insular government was having some ships built over there or boats for the interisland trade. and they had to go to Hongkong to get them built. It occurred to them that they might teach the Filipinos to build ships. so they asked Congress to allow Chinese shipbuilders to come inskilled mechanicsto teach these Filipinos how to build ships. They were to come in for a period of five years and then be deported. These were skilled inen. No one in the insular government ever dreamed that we were to have an importation of cooly laborers there to go into the sugar fields of the Philippine Islands.
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