Session #44 · 1875–77

Speech #440007873

Wellss table. it has lost more than $200.000.000 in value. and it would require 360.000.000 bushels now to purchase what 200.000.000 bushels did in 1859. Two hundred million dollars lost to the wheatgrowers in a a single year. in ten years. two billions ! Two billion dollars contributed by the toilers of the harvestfields to their rich neighbors to protect them against foreign paupers. and yet their generosity is not exhausted. They are still prosecuting the war for the deliverance of their American kinsmen from the power of the foreign pauper. Year by year. as they gather to their garners the fruits of their golden harvestfields. onethird they set apart to repel the foreign pauper. while the manufacturers. with irreconcilable hate worthy of the Roman Cato.end all their discourses with "the foreign pauper must be destroyed. It will be well enough for us to consider whether we have not under the leadership of the manufacturer prosecuted our campaigns against the foreign paupers till we have almost pauperized ourselves. The wheatgrowers are not the only victims of the manufacturer. the cottongrowers. whose labor produces two hundred and fifty millions a year. are in the same category. and so are all others outside of the golden circle of pfrotection. All our people. white and black. male and female. are drawn behind the chariots of the manufacturer to adorn his triumph and to guard him against the contaminating presence of the "foreign pauper. For him the nation slays its fatted calf. and for his protection and comfort throws around his shoulders its best new robe. Those who till the soil are an army of six million laborers. and with their families constitute more than half of our people. and create more than threefourths of all our iu nnual productions. but they get no protection. do not ask any. but to be let alone and pernitted to enjoy the rewards of their own toil.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about 'foreign paupers' being a threat to American workers and economy.
Keywords matched
foreign pauper foreign paupers

Classification

Target group
None Specific
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
⚠️ Yes
Confidence
85%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
ROGER MILLS
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
TX
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
440007873
Paragraph
#0
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