If we trent Porto Rice as part of the United States, must we not a little later treat the Philippines in the same way? If we grant free trade to the one must ye not also to the other? If we practically admit one within the boundaries of the United Statea, tacitly saying that the future wil bring actual Statehood, must we not admit the other?
They said to themselves:. " We do not want free trade wilh the Philippines, for 1 that would bring American labour into competition with 8,000,000 or 10,000,000 half-naked, hall-civilised people who have no Aesire beyond enough food to live on and a little shelter and whose ambition extends not into to-morrow. The whole vote of the workingman would be thrown against 'a party which should propose free trade with auch a country, The thought of the Philippines ever forming States as a part of the United States and participating in the government is too absured to contemplate."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.