With these facts in mind you can readily see that there can be no appreciable expangion of the sugar industry within the islands such as has occurred in Cuba. Hawaii. and Porto Rico. The other reason beyond the land laws for the lack of expansion of the sugar industry is the labor situation within the islands. Tle act of 1902 extended the Chinese exclusion laws. to tbeislands. The Chinese is the only available outsidelabor. Cuba to make her explinsion:. used contract labor brought in: from Hawaii. Jamaica. etc.. which they allowed c6uld not remain to become citizen6 and had to leive atthe expiration of tihe c 6iittact seasbn. Witlbut tlis contractimport of lalor Cuba could not have made her expansion.
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