They live upon rice. they wear oriental clothing. Commerce has increased with Asia and not with the United States. and so it will be in the future. As the sugar industry grows. more and more coolies are imported to cultivate the sugar. and less and less of the products of this country will be consumed. Americans will not cultivate sugar. have not gone to those islands as laborers. and although in 1895 there were eightyfour men of American blood employed upon sugar plantations. in 1897 there was not one. Why? Because the Japaneseskillful. ablewould fill the places of or bookkeepers and our superintendents for $15 a month. while the Americans must have $50 or $75. So no matter what you do. if you annex the islands there will not be American toilers or American population. It must be Asiatic. No AngloSaxon ever yet toiled in the sugarcane fields or produced coffee. But they say there are great shipping interests.
Identified stereotypes
Asiatic people are associated with low wages and a threat to American jobs.