President. what is going to be the influence not today. not tomorrow. but five. ten. twenty years from now? It is my solemn conviction. and I stated it seriously ten years ago. that that would be the result. We are building up in Asiatic countries a competition which can not be met by the American people. You can not put the American citizen upon a plane to compete with the Japanese. the Chinese. or the Indian. and it is inevitable as that the day shall follow the night that this is to come. Ten years ago in the Senate I said that the philosophy of it was that we should build up Asiatic manufactures. It took nearly ten years before that prophecy began to be realized. Today the manufacturers of Christendom are being threatened by the manufacturers of heathendom today the manufacturers of the United States are in jeopardy and in peril by the manufactures growing up with Asiatic capital in Asiatic countries. where the people can live on a few cents a day. where few of the obligations that are put upon us are put upon them. where the citizenship of those countries carries with it no burden such as citizenship carries with us. and where they can live. as they have been living for thousands of years. in what they call comfort and happiness. in a manner that would send our people to the grave or to revolution. Mr. President. this is not a fanciful sketch. this is not a theory. nor the statement of an enthusiast. It can be demonstrated beyond question. though I shall not undertake it now. that there is great danger that the manufactures of Europe and the manufactures of the United States will be transplanted to Asiatic lands. and when once transported. nothing can take them away. Those people are cunning and skillful. and patient and enduring. and unaccustomed to the civilization that we rejoice in. they will continue to become competitors to a degree which will absolutely destroy American and European laborers. Yet the men who profess here the greatest interest in our industries. the men who profess the greatest interest in labor. are absolutely silent when this great question confronts the American people. and not one of them has ever been heard any more than they have been heard in defense of this bill.
Identified stereotypes
Asians are cunning, skillful, patient, enduring, and accustomed to a lower standard of living, making them unfair economic competitors.