President. Senators from the West are nervous about the yellow peril. They do not. however. think it possible now that the question of suffrage for Asiatics can ever be presented to them or to this country. because they are not now even allowed to be made citizens. But is any man within imy hearing ready for a moment to say that the proposition of Asiatics ever being forced as voters upon the people of the western coast is more impossible or more unthinkable than was the probability in the year 1860 that in eight years by an act of the Federal Government a whole section of this country should be submitted to the dangers of the domination of a race of people with only the slavery through thousands of years behind them. who were of the lowest alien race. and who had none of the capacity or intelligence or experience or character essential for government? Does any man think that the possibility of a change which shall confront the western people with the question of the right of that Asiatic element to voteis there any man here who will say that the possibility of that compares with what was recognized as the possibility in 1860 that that would occur which did occur within the short space of eight years? Mr. President.
Identified stereotypes
Asiatics are described as being of low intelligence and lacking the capacity for government.