It is inconceivable to me that any organization or any bureau can possibly find out what it costs the Japanese to operate one of these ships between San Francisco and Tokio. or what they pay to their labor. With coolie labor. with depreciated currencies. with all these other things. it is impossible to ascertain such costs correctly. No matter how honest the authority might be. we should be putting an impossible task upon them. and we should be putting upon them a task which the American people would not stand for. and which they would overwhelmingly repudiate the minute it was known that anything of the kind had been put in operation.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizing about Japanese labor practices as 'coolie labor' and associating it with depreciated currencies and dishonesty.