So a little over 85 per cent of our exports to Great Britain and Ireland consisted of agricultural produce. as against 26 per cent of our exports to South America. It is claimed by the protectionists and advocates of reciprocity that we ought to find a market for a large amount of our agricultural produce in Cuba. Under a recent census it seems that Cuba has only 1.525.000 people. of which 978.000 are Spaniards and Creoles. 10.600 whites. 44.000 Chinese coolies. and 484.249 negroes and mulattoes. Has any country in the world ever succeeded in building up important commercial relations with a country within the tropics having a mongrel population? Commerce marks the intellectual development of a people and goes hand in hand with the higher order of intelligence. and the races of people which are purest blooded. most thoroughly intellectual. are the ones which excel most in commerce.
Identified stereotypes
The paragraph suggests that a 'mongrel population' is incapable of building important commercial relations, implying racial inferiority.