Speaker. it is only the articles of incorporation of this Government and the doctrine that it is unchangeable cannot be maintained for a moment. The American people are not a stolid unprogressive people that require no changes in their organic law. We are not Asiatics and I can see no argument in the assertion that the Constitution was designed by its founders not to be changed to fit the conditions of a growing. prosperous nation. The lions skin may become too short. We are stretching our limbs. we are expanding our lungs. we are extending our territory. increasing the number of our States. extending nOw lines of railway. stretching telegraph wires across plains and mountains. we are swarming above and talking beneath the seas. we are overcoming new difficulties and contriving new forces and instruments of enterprise. and the giant form which is thus growing to manhood cannot lie within the narrow confines of the cradle of its infancy.
Identified stereotypes
Asiatics are described as stolid and unprogressive, implying they are resistant to change and improvement.