How long has it been since there was passed through both Houses of Congress and sent to the Executive for his signature a bill excluding from our shores the ignorance. the pauperism. and the crime of the Old World that are annually coming to our shores to permeate our system and poison the blood of the body politic? And yet the Hawaiian annexationist is proposing that we shall now annex to our domain these people who are open to the very objection upon which that bill was predicated. How long has it been since we passed our Chinese exclusion acts and justified them to the country upon the ground that we must drive out the ignorance that was coming to us from the Flowery Kingdom to the peril of our population and the damage of our free institutions. With what consistency. then. do we now reach out over an expanse of waters to draw to ourselves a population composed so largely of Chinese? I know.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizing immigrants from the Old World as ignorant, paupers, and criminals who poison the body politic.