And it never will. They have crossed the plains. scaled the mountains. and breasted the waves of the Pacific. Ordinarily immigration and capital move along isothermal lines. but isothermal lines are too narrow and restricted to restrain the energy and progress of the American people. and we may hope assuredly to do something by American energy and American capital to advance the condition of the Philippine Islands. But. Mr. Chairman. we need have no fear in this country of competition with the laborers of those islands. We all know that our immigration laws have been thrown around them. we know the Chinese can not come in there. and our farmers and our tobacco raisers and our cigar manufacturers. with all. the capital and energy that will be attracted from this country need have no fear of the only labor which is there. namely. the Filipino labor. Look over the history of the world. Mr.
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