Our ancestors did it when they introduced these people hereour slaveselling Yankee ancestry and our slavebuying southern ancestry. Mr. Jefferson. after he had tried to secure the emancipation and deportation of this race. and after his motion had been voted down by a small vote. at that time in a slaveholding community. uttered these very memorable words in a letter to a friend: "They will not bear it now. but the time will come when they must bear it. for nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people must at some day be free. except this. that no two races physically and mentally so different can long exist equally free in the same country." * Now. the danger from the white mans greed is this: Labor Is growing scarcer every year in the sugar belt and in the cotton belt and in the rice belt in comparison with demand for an increase of the production of cotton. sugar. and rice. In my opinion. it will not be many years before sugar planters and cotton planters will be bringing over negroes from the West Indies ands perhaps even from Africa. and I want to stop it before it starts. You may say it is a fancied danger. but I find that in 1902 there were 4.700 immigrants from the West Indies and in 1911 there were 13.403. It has grown threefold in that time. and I find that within the last five yearsthese figures are furnished me by the Department of Commerce and Laborthere has been a total immigration from the West Indies of 64.404. Mr. President.
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