This Government has no power by legislation to restrict me to the inhabitancy of one State. Congress can not pass a law requiring me to spend my life in Nebraska. I am a citizen of the United States and may visit in safety any portion of its territory whenever 1 see fit. and whenever you incorporate those Japanese and Chinese coolies and Polynesians. with their leprosy. into the inhabitants of the United States. their right to come to your State and to mine and to engage in business there and dwell there and intermarry with the population. if they see fit. is as absolute as the right to life and liberty. and can not be restrained. Mr. President. what will this country do with 15.000.000 people such as are to be found in the Hawaiian Islands. in the Philippines. in Puerto Rico. and in Cuba. every one of them of an alien race. none of them used to the forms and solemnities of selfgovernment. turbulent. vicious. savage?
Identified stereotypes
The speaker generalizes that the Japanese, Chinese, and Polynesians are all diseased and incapable of self-government.