The fear of competition by cheap labor is causeless; regulations might be drawn up for the control of these foreign laborers, and on their arrival they could be drafted to those places where their services might be most urgently needed.

So long as honest and steady workmen are excluded for no reason other than that they are Asiatics, while white men are indiscriminately admitted, I fear that the prosperity of the country cannot be considered permanent, for agriculture is the backbone of stable wealth.

Yet at present it is the country's wealth which is one of the important factors of America's greatness.

In the United States there are thousands of individuals whose fortunes are counted by seven or eight figures in gold dollars.
And much of this money has been used to build railways, or to develop manufactories and other useful industries.

The country has grown great through useful work, and not on account of the army and navy.