I am not pleading for Japan or.China. I am pleading for the American shipowner. Once we have been driven off the Pacific Ocean by this method. who knows but that the commerce between the United States and Europe will be carried by ships flying the Japanese and Chinese flags on ships manned by coolies? A fairly decent sailor can be made out of a coolie. Ninetenths of a crew can be coolies. and the ship carrying such a crew will still function. This does not even limit it to the Pacific coast. It means that no ship. American. German. British. can enter the port of New York with a single coolie in her crew. but a Japanese or a Chinese ship can run between Southampton and New York. if you please. with nothing but coolies in her crew. I can not think of anything better calculated to drive the American flag off the ocean than is section 7. Therefore.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about Chinese and Japanese laborers ('coolies') as being universally employable on ships and undercutting American labor.