I think the gentleman from Washington will recognize the fact that it is hardly fair for an American Congress to exclude the cheap Chiinese labor by statute and yet at the same time permit the Chinese people to bring in their pig iron on the Pacific Coast. There is no consistency in it. It is not right. and it is not just to keep from the shores of America the cheap Chinese labor and yet at the same time throw our doors wide open to the steel and pig iron made by the cheap coolie labor in China. Now. there is going to be a reduction in the price of delivery of pig iron on the Pacific coast. and it will come with the completion of the Panama Canal. and the pig iron for the Pacific coast will be furnished by the iron mills of the Southern States by the improved waterways. giving them cheap water transportation down the rivers upon which their furnaces are located into the Gulf of Mexico and through the Panama Canal. We owe it to the American workingmen to keep out the goods made either in China or Japan that are sold in competition with the goods made by the American mechanics.
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Generalizes Chinese laborers as "cheap labor."