My colleague overlooks one fact in pleading. for this duty upon graphite. The argument that you ought to. equalize the labor costs at home and abroad is made for every protective duty. This graphite in Alabama is produced. by highly skilled and. intelligent labor. The principal supply of graphite coming into this country. as I understand it. comes from the. island of Ceylon. where naked Asiatics. in a tropical clime. live on coconuts are covered with a single cotton shift. if they wear anything. and get a few cents a day for mining this graphite. which comes over here as ballast.
Identified stereotypes
Describes people from Ceylon as 'naked Asiatics' living on coconuts and wearing a single cotton shift, implying poverty and primitiveness.