Whitelaw Reid: “Can we mine all over the world, from South Africa to the Klondike, but not in Palawan?”

Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?

That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.

Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?

Public sentiment was against the sale of lands to the Yankees; “Get white laborers,” they urged, “and in a year you’ll make enough to be able to hold on to your lands.