Chapter XXVI

Congressional Legislation 604-622

Showing how a small group of American importers of Manila

hemp--hemp being to the Philippines what cotton is to the

South--have so manipulated the Philippine hemp industry as to

depress the market price of the main source of wealth of the

Islands below the cost of production; also other evils of taxation

without representation.

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