Mr. President. the State of the Senator from Nevada. if my memory serves me. expressed its feelings pretty strongly in regard to the introduction of Japanese or other Asiatic labor of any kind into this country. I think that Is the general feeling as I have seen it manifested on the Pacific coast. I do not believe in admitting Asiatic immigration or Asiatic labor into the United States. but. economically. there is not a particle of difference on a question of competition between admitting the Asiatic labor in the form of the human being and in admitting it in the concrete form of a manufactured article. If you let in the celluloid brush made at the factories in Japan. you are admitting your Japanese labor into competition with your American labor and with your American standards just as much as if you admit unrestricted Asiatic immigration into the port of San Francisco. I am a protectionist. but I am a protectionist on both sides. I can not see how it is wise to exclude Japanese or Chinese labor from the Pacific coast on the ground of its presenting an impossible competition in modes of life and standards of living with our people. and saying that their products. which embody their labor in a concrete form. may come in without any tariff protection.
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