Session #56 · 1899–1901

Speech #560023505

They undertook to rush through the treaty annexing those islands in the last days of Harrisons Administration by sending out a deliberate falsehood. signed by the sons of missionaries whose fathers went to Hawaii to convert the inhabitants to Christianity and whose sons have stolen all the lands of those people and their government beside. Now. let us see what they have been doing since our flag went up. They have been importing slave labor. and. what is more. the pillars of the Congregational Church in Hawaii. the sons of those missionaries. own stock in the Ewa plantation. and they have been boasting that they were importing Asiatics who were heathens so that they could come under the blessings of the influences of Christianity. Last year they imported a Buddhist priest and set up a Buddhist temple. because they said it made the laborers more quiet. attending church every Sunday. while the planters went on with this performance. The article in the Hawaiian Independent to which I have referred is as follows: We daily see a large number of Galiciansin the chain gang working at the quarries and on the roads.
Identified stereotypes
Asiatics are heathens who can be influenced by Christianity to be more quiet laborers.
Keywords matched
Asiatics

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Asiatics
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
⚠️ Yes
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Victim Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
RICHARD PETTIGREW
Party
S
Chamber
S
State
SD
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
560023505
Paragraph
#0
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