Session #55 · 1897–99

Speech #550138370

A number of Anierican laborers who were taken there years ago to work upon sugar plantations have abandoned the business. and today not one is employed in any of their tropical industries. Between 1895 and 1897 even the eightyseven Americans who were put down in the census of Hawaii as being engaged in the sugar industry as employees have disappeared entirely. They turn them off. They were foremen. they were bookkeepers. but the Jap came in. skilled as he is in every art and in every business. He would work for $12 a month. and the American who was being paid $50 and $75 was dismissed. So even in Hawaii. since 1895. every American employed as a laborer on these plantations has been dismissed and his place filled by an Asiatic.
Identified stereotypes
The Japanese are described as skilled in every art and business and willing to work for very low wages.
Keywords matched
Asiatic

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Americans
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
⚠️ Yes
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
RICHARD PETTIGREW
Party
S
Chamber
S
State
SD
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
550138370
Paragraph
#2
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