Let me say that in my judgment the man who believes this. the statesman who acts upon this today. will be like certain men we read of who believe a lie and are damned. Asia can spare fifty million and scarcely miss them from her shores. and they are coming. Already the tide of immigration has set in across the waters of the Pacific. and today they are coming by the thousand into the ports of California andOregon and Washington Territory. and all the other ports of the Pacific coast. bringing with themwhat? Intelligence. wealth. virtue? Not much. but rather ignorance. and poverty. and crime. pestilence. moral. social. political. in their most alarming and dreaded forms. A reference to a few arrivals of steamers recently on the Pacific coast will give some idea in regard to the alarming character of this immigration at the present time. In a dispatch from San Francisco. April 16.
Identified stereotypes
The speaker stereotypes Asian immigrants as bringing 'ignorance, poverty, and crime' rather than 'intelligence, wealth, virtue'.