If you are going to make those Islands productive you must get labor from where it can be had. No amount of wages will induce the laborers of any of the States of the United States to go to these islands. I am not in favor of having Japanese labor and Chinese labor go there or anywhere else. but I am in favor of getting white labor if it has to come from Portugal. Spain. or South America. or wherever it may come from. to go there to take the place of the Asiatic laborers. I am in favor of building up that country so that it may be equal to all its opportunities.