President. these steamers. as they move about in the Far East stopping at eastern ports. have passenger lists made up of Filipinos. Chinese. Malays. and lascars. and Asiatics of all characters and of all nationalities. I am not myself willing to support a measure which means that an American boy must go into the stewards department on one of those boats. whether in the first class. the second. or third class or steerage of those vessels. and wait upon those Asiatics. shining their shoes. doing the menial tasks of a steward. That is not my conception of the dignity of American labor. I am not for any measure that takes Asiatics out of the stokehold and out of the stewards department of vessels in these eastern trades and puts in their places American citizens and American boys. I hope I have answered the Senators question. -
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about Asiatics doing menial tasks.