Again I impress upon. the Senators that the labor employed is largely Chinese and Japanese and that it is the very labor which we. even at the risk of provoking international complications. have excluded from entry into this country. How inconsistent it is to exclude this oriental labor from our shores and yet admit freely the products of that labor. Compare the coolies who make these cigars in the Philippines with the Americans who are engaged In the industry in this country. Here the majority of the workmen are American born. The industry is an old one and the conditions In it are such that it is not open like some lines of business to newly arrived immigrants. Do not by passing this section in its present form decree its destruction.
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