Professor Worcester. in his book on the Philippines. says: It is true that the climate of the Philippines killed 25 per cent of the Spanish troops in fifteen months after their arrival. * * * It is unfortunately true that the climate of the Philippines is especially severe in its effect on white women and children. It is very doubtful. in my opinion. if many successive generations of European children could be raised there. Do we want the 10.000.000 Malay and halfsavage Asiatics as citizens? Do we want to incorporate these islands as Territories. eventually to become States of our Union? If not. how shall they be governed?
Identified stereotypes
The speaker generalizes about Malay and Asiatic people as being half-savage and undesirable as citizens.