I do not discuss equal rights. I do not discuss American citizenship. But when I hear Republicans who will go to the polls shouting protection for American industries. when I hear the men whi boast of their kind patronage and fatherly protection to Anmerican labor. when I hear these men protest against a bill looking to the expulsion of pauper labor from our midst. when I hear them sound the Crumpet of the cooly system and the principle of freedom together. when 1 see them attempting to deprive the American laborer of his employment by introducing a class of "helots." when I see them " rin g to drive our nativeborn and adopted citizens from their vocalions by the aid of mercenaries. when I see them advocating protection and at the same time importing labor machines free of duty. I can neither doubt their inconsistency nor trust their disinterestedness. The strongest instinct of the human race is selfpreservation. The next. love of offspring. When you ask men to cut off the comforts of their homes. to decrease the advantages their children enjoy. to go out and work in competition with a pauper or a slave. to welcome to their land of comfort and civilization a heathen coming to reduce tleni to his level. when you ask this in the name of liberty and Su"al rights you profane their names. Liberty and equal rights are liberty and equal rights of men. not of slaves. not of coolies. The freedom of an eating. drinking. opiumsmoking. working automaton is not the freedom which our citizens enjoy. The rights of a.wellworked machine are not their rights. they have higher rights and broader liberties. and they use them.
Identified stereotypes
Chinese laborers are described as 'helots' and 'labor machines', eating, drinking, opium-smoking automatons.