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It will meet that condition foor any labor not oriental. but until the day when the policy of oriental exclusion in this country is broken down by international dictum the seamens act can not meet the competition of the oriental seafaring men. Mr. Barnes. as I said. was the most conspicuous of those who proposed the abrogation of all restraint on immigration. But lie was not alone in sustaining that view. The Italian Government very naturally shared his opinion. The export of labor is one of the items upon which the Italian iuinister of finance always and publicly relies in the preparation of his budget. The Britisli minister for labor anid the Italian Government. since the assembly of the conference in Paris. have avowed their judgment that emigration should be without let orhindrance. At this date the Governments of the Balkan States have not spoken on the subject. but any student of immigration to America during the last few years. any student however superficial. knows that before the war it was from the Balkan States that came the growing stream of unskilled labor. . The Japanese position in this regard need not be argued here. Testimony to the intention of the Japanese Government. to the dangers to American labor implied In that intention. has been given by the Senator from California lMr. PHELAN]. who never-. tlieless is going to support this project to internationalize the labor of the world. All of the countries whose populations exceed their ability to support them. either through the product of their own fields or through the organized industry which depends largely upon the importation of raw materials. must instinctively unite on a common policy to make easy the emigration of labor to fields where employment is open on terms better than those obtained at home. 191 9. -: 793.9