All the laboring people of my State. for reasons easily understood and sound. are opposed to the farther coming of Philippine laborers into continental United States. If I were a Mussolini and had the power which is imputed to him. I would close the door of the Pacific and lock it today against the further coming of this type of Asiatic labor. And this I should do. not in anger or with hatred. but primarily for the economic benefit of our own people. Ultimately the exclusion of this type of laborers would be of equal. if not greater. benefit to the Philippines. Whatever the Filipino commissioners may tell us. there are thoughtful Filipino gentlemen in this city who favor the stopping of the migration of Philippine laborers to the United States. They look forward hopefully to early independence. and they wish to develop their own country. economically and in every other way. and they think it would be good policy to keep their people at home. I said a while ago that if we had not stopped Chinese immigration there would be millions of them in the United States. today. If we had not stopped Japanese immigration. there would be millions of them here today. If we do not stop Philippine migration. there will be hundreds of thousands and millions of them here. because. even as in the old days all roads led to Rome. so now all roads by land or sea lead to America and all men who toil. who suffer. who labor hard are hoping to come to America. Whether it be from Czechoslovakia. or Poland. or Greece. or Italy. or other European or Asiatic country. they yearn to come to America. The Filipinos want to come and they are coming in rapidly increasing numbers. I do not want them to arrive.
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