Session #47 · 1881–83

Speech #470037377

There is enough for them to do on the higher levels in our society. The higher the kind of labor the higher the laborer. r[Ihe arguments on the other side are the same argumels which were heard a hundred years ago against the invention of laborsaving machinery. When the genius of British inventors btegan to devise umachincry to Iperforu labor which previously had been perflrmed by hand. there was the same outcry against them and the work of their in veutive genius that there is today against Mongolian labor in this country. It was said. "You are driving out the laborer Jrom his eniployncnt. you are providing means of taking from him that which is necessary for his support." Thus the working classes in many cases were incited to break up the looms and the spinningjeneis twhich were being invented. because they believed il ey were antagonistic to their interests. lBnt. Mr.
Keywords matched
Mongolian

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
WILLIAM RICE
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
MA
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
470037377
Paragraph
#2
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