It means a people. the most conservative on the face of the earth. attached by traditions to things that exist. are to change every sentiment in their minds and to adopt a civilization inconsistent with their ideas of right. because we think it beneficial to them that they should. I have no question in my own mind but that not a small per cent. but practically no considerable number. of the people desire our presence in those islands. I know something of the Asiatic mind. I have come in contact with it more or less for the last forty years. I know that when the civil Commission goes out the natives will meet them with banners. and they will build arches and all that. but they would shoot the commissioners if they found them where they could safely do so. It is the Asiatic way. it is Asiatic dissimulation. I know that when the chainnan of the Commission went around the islands the people attended. and there were huzzas. Does any man here believe that a people who had been fighting Spain and who have seen no other American government but autocracy have fallen in love with it and want it to dominate them?
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Asiatics are deceitful and do not desire American presence.