A short time ago I introduced and reported a bill affording some consideration in the matter of retirement for Americans who were engaged in that construction. Thus. Mr. President. the universal testimony in connection with the construction of the Canal. the testimony of General Goethals in his various reports. the testimony of the Army engineers. and of everyone else. is that the Canal never could have been constructed without alien labor. which was imported. Most of the labor was not born in Panama or the vicinity of Panama. It was imported from Jamaica and some of the other British islands for the purpose of doing the work which Americans could not or would not do.
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