All European nations can assimilate with our people. can mix or mingle with them. but if there is in any country of Europe a class of people who are in such a condition of life that they can be classed as you may say as the coolies of Asia. people who do not own themselves. who work only for others. who have never conceived the idea of independent manhoodif there are in Europe such a class of people. and I am told there are. we should prohibit their importation into this country. Weare led to believe that in many countries of Europe there is still awaydown at the substratum of those ancient societies a class of people who arc reduced to that condition. If there are any such classes of the white race I do not want them here. on the same priuciples that the friends of the Chinese bill voted for that measure. As for independent emigration from Ireland. from Scotland. or England. the fountains of the great body of immigration to this country. or from old Germany. the fountain of all the AngloSaxon people. or from any country in Europe. even of the Latin races. if there are in those countries any class of men so low in the scale of society that by the contracts described in the first section of the bill they may be brought in here to compete with our independent citizens who are struggling to elevate themselves in the arts of manhood. I say I would prohibit them. and I think in doing that I represent not only the laboring people of Ohio. but I represent every class of citizens of the State of Ohio. the wealthy. the rich. the educated. every citizen of Ohio who has respect for his manhood. Our people dd not wish to have such a class brought here in competition with the laboring men of Ohio. who are bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. and from which class all the great men of our State and of our nation have sprung.
Identified stereotypes
Some Europeans are described as coolies, people who do not own themselves, and work only for others.