I am quite aware of that. and I will say to the gentleman from Alabama that the Pacific coast appreciate the friendship and cooperation of the people of the South in this matter. It has been urged that the labor necessities of the Pacific coast demand this Mongolian immigration. Why. they say. your fruit industry. your mines. your seed farms can not be worked and developed without them. It is better that they never should be developed than that our white laborers should be driven out or degraded by Mongolians. The same arguments were no doubt used a century or so ago to justify thebringing of African labor to this country. But there is no labor demand upon the Pacific coast that can not be fully met with white laborers. if conditions are made such that they will wish to come and remain there. No selfrespecting white laborer will work beside the Mongolian upon terms that will be satisfactory to the latter. The proposition wkether we shall have white or yellow labor on the Pacific slope must soon be settled. for we can not have both. If Mongolians are allowed to freely comeand if they are they will come in large numbersthe white laborer will not go there. He will soon come to understand that that section of our country is no place for a laboring man. and he will shun it as he would a pestilence. And who can blaine him?
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Mongolians will drive out or degrade white laborers.