We have reached the saturation point with 8.000.000 idle men in this country at the present time. It is unjust alike to American and foreign laborers to add more to this deplorable list of unemployed. God gave the nonassimilable Asiatics a place in the sun. and that place is the Orient. I introduced. at the beginning of this session of Congress and during the two preceding sessions. bills providing for Filipino exclusion. The Committee on Insular Affairs. of which I am a member. on my motion. by unanimous vote. incorporated the substance of my bill in section 8 of the Philippine independence bill. I advocate the passage of this measure because it will not only give independence to the Philippine people but also because it will give protection to the American workingman. I do not judge the Filipinos by the undesirable types of labor that have come to our country. but Filipino exclusion is necessary because those types will inevitably ruin the standards of labor that have been so laboriously achieved by our American men and women. The entire California delegation is in favor of excluding Filipino immigration from entering the United States. The American Federation of Labor has indorsed this measure. The American Farm Bureau Federation has indorsed it.
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Filipinos are judged by the undesirable types of labor that have come to our country.