I have not stated it as yet. I would strike out section 7. not so much because it may violate the treaties of commerce. not because of any injustice it might be claimed to do to Japan or China or India. but for just the opposite reasonbecause of the injustice that it does to us. Consider the Pacific Mail Steamship Line or the Dollar Line trying to compete in Pacific trade with Chinese and Japanese ships. which themselves are allowed to hire coolies. whereas our vessels can not hire a single sailor from the "barred zone." Their operating costs will not be onethird of our operating costs. If I had to describe section 7 briefly. I should say that it was the most effective provision I could imagine to turn over all the commerce of the Pacific Ocean to Japan and to China. it would drive every American ship out of that trade.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about Chinese and Japanese laborers ('coolies') as being universally employable on ships and undercutting American labor.