Dr. Moran? Moreover. these Asiatic possessions are not such as this Republic can afford to bring into our great American family. These islands were discovered in the year of our Lord 1521. only about twentynine years after Columbus discovered America. The area is about 120.000 squaremiles and the population about 10.000.000. They take to any form of religion slowly. With all the industry of the Roman Catholic clergy for over three hundred and fifty years. only about oneeighth of them are even nominally Christians. and if Catholic priests can not get them. they are in a bad shape. Touching our new brethren and sisters. should we annex them. we will have invited into our great social and political temple a conglomeration of probably the very lowest order of savages of the entire human race. embracing everything. from the Negritos. who never cook anything and sleep on the ground. the only domestic animal they care for being the dog. on through the different gradations of humanity up to the Chinese coolies about Manila. Here 68 dialects exist. The confusion of tongues at the Tower of Babel is the only thing read about that equals it.
Identified stereotypes
The speaker generalizes about the people of the Asiatic possessions as being the lowest order of savages.