Not too different from what Gen. Kelly said, except it's about Italians and it was written in 1895:

From an Iowa newspaper editorial:

"They will not educate…They have poor conception of our standard of morality. They are not self-governing...
They have no habits that our people can copy with benefit. Whatever they teach is a detriment to the community. They will not learn, because knowledge would overthrow their characters and cause them to cease to be the menace they have been whenever colonized in America".