The leather industry has also gained 10 per cent in exports. in spite of high prices of hides. having been reduced in price about 3J per cent. Though hides are slightly higher. boots and shoes have been reduced over 2 per cent. and the output has been the largest ever known. with shipments from Boston 4.321.272 cases. 133.000. or 3per cent. larger than in 1897 and 16.3 per cent larger than in 1892. As has been well said. "business is the child of security and peace." The wonderful prosperity which is being so rapidly developed is likely to be retarded and jeopardized bya policy which would compel us to maintain permanently a great standing army. thereby subjecting our people to heavy burdens and war taxes. a policy which might bring our wageearners into competition with the pauper labor of the East. with those millions of halfcivilized people who are content with a bare subsistence. No policy which reduces wages. which lessens the comforts and opportunities of the working people. can bring with it prosperity and happiness. I am not in favor of making the people of the Philippine Islands American citizens.
Identified stereotypes
The speaker generalizes about Asian people as being half-civilized and content with bare subsistence.