What is it which has led tliem to commit these atrocities which we all so much regret and over which we sorrow? That. Mr. President. is what I want now to explain. I think I know why these things have happened. I think they have grown out of the conditions of warfare. of the war that was waged by the Filipinos themselves. a semicivilized people. with all the tendencies and characteristics of Asiatics. with the Asiatic indifference to life. with the Asiatic treachery and the Asiatic cruelty. all tinctured and increased by three hundred years of subjection to Spain. Half the story has been told on this floor. I want to tell the other half and I invite attention to it.
Identified stereotypes
Filipinos are described as a semicivilized people with Asiatic indifference to life, treachery, and cruelty.