The combined investment of all the members of the New York Filipino Chamber of Commercethe exporters organization which is flooding Congress with its appeals against independencewould represent an infinitesimal number. and in dollars and cents a relatively small investment compared with that of even the farm and dairy interests. omitting entirely the subject of the beetsugar and canesugar investment. It is well for the Senate to understand that the plea for Philippine independence on the part of union labor has been consistent and persistent since 1899. Now. supplementing these forces are the States on the Pacific coast who want a limitation on Philippine immigration. and to these exclusionists must be added the national expression of opinion of the American Legion. with its hundreds of thousands of members. Against the little organization of New York exporters now attempting to deceive Congress we find arrayed the elements of our population which I have enumerated.
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