Session #43 · 1873–75

Speech #430029609

We have created States and rendered every part of our Territories accessible. so that theyare now populated. We have surveyed the land. and made every part of or broad country the home of civihization end enterprise. What. sir. are the proportions of the taxes of this day to the eproings and accunmulations of thepeople to what they were when despair drove back to his fatherland the immigrant who had sought in vain for the means of living in this counry under our free institutions and ourbeautiful flag! The expenses of the Government are mere ingross. but they never sat so lightly upon the people as they do now. The taxes of a country are the annual draught it makes upon the annual earnhgs of the people. and during those same ten years of alleged extravagance they paid inone year e490.000.000. andin the next nearly .$450.000.000. and in those two years leaned from their accumulated profits $t.000.000.000 to support the Government against the southern wing of the (emocratic party. [Iere the hammer fell.]
Keywords matched
immigrant

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
WILLIAM KELLEY
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
PA
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
430029609
Paragraph
#1
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