Add together the Government bonds. the railroad bonds. the stock issued. and tie value of the land grant. and we find the total cash value of the assets of this company to have been $152.924.000. According to the reports of the company. the total cost of construction was $40.000.000. That this is a gross overestimate no one acquainted with the topography of the country and the poor construction of the road doubts. especially when it is remembered that the work was done by 15.000 Chinese contract laborers imported especially for the purpose. These are the fellows whose very memory is sufficient to cause the venerable member from Pennsylvania to lapse into ecstatic raptures. and who constitute one leg of the triumverate. before whose shrine he still burns incense and still prostrates his manly form in his mighty effort to deify 15.000 pigtails. If we estimate $20.000 per mile for cost of construction. the total is $17.440.000.
Identified stereotypes
Dehumanizing reference to "15,000 pigtails"