And it will need something more convincing than the simple assertion by one who has spent a few weeks in the Philippines collecting data to sustain his radical. preconceived ideas of this people to convince our wageearners of the correctness of the following euphonious assertion of the gentleman from Indiana. namely. thatNothing could beguile. no force compel. these children of indolence toleave their thrilling lives for the fierce and fervid industry of highwrought Americans. . He knows that the same assertion might with equal propriety a few years ago have been made concerning the Chinese whose coming since has been such a menace to our people that we have been obliged to resort to national legislation to prohibit their immigra* tion. But even if the Filipinos should not immigrate here. still our labor would not be free from their baneful influence. The moneyed interests of soulless trusts and combines would invest capital where they could procure the cheapest labor. and manufactories would spring up in the Philippines with just sufficient skilled labor to superintend and direct the unskilled labor of the many natives. who would be employed at 25 cents per day. and the product thus secured would be placed on the counters and sales rooms in San Francisco. Chicago.
Identified stereotypes
Filipinos are described as children of indolence.