French. Russians. and all other classes of what may be regarded as belonging to the white race do not number to exceed ten or twelve thousand. The balance of them are Japanese. coolies. pureblood and mixed Polynesians. a race of people who are afflicted in their entirety as a race with leprosy. one of the islands being set apart and dedicated to the treating of leprosy. Will any man be kind enough to tell the country how we are to be improved by the annexation of that class of people to our country? We often say. and with more truth than poetry. that this country is now gorged with foreign population. that we are receiving them more rapidly than we can assimilate and convert them into American citizens.
Identified stereotypes
The speaker generalizes that the Polynesian race is afflicted with leprosy.