These women bring young pagans into the world. who. with their socalled husbands. worship in josshouse temples and become disciples of Confucius as well as opium iends." Furthermore. 99 out of every 100 Chinese are gamblers. This undesirable class come in direct competition with women who are breadwinners. The beastly and immoral lives that these Mongolians lead is only too well known in the police courts in all our large cities. where patrol wagons filled with Chinese gamblers and Sunday school scholars every fonday morning goes to prove as an object lesson that they never can be "Christianized." In Febrnary. 1898. 700 Hebrews and Italians were discharged. They had been employed in two steam laundries on the east side. New York. and 400 Chinese took their places.
Identified stereotypes
Chinese are described as pagans, opium fiends, gamblers, beastly, and immoral.