Session #47 · 1881–83

Speech #470153891

If the laborer io a pauper when he comes from Europe. .and ceases to be a pauper as soon as he settles down here. why should not the product of the pauper laborer in Europe. when it becomes the property of a free American citizen. cease to become pauper property? In ether words. we have a law to protect the manufacturer. and you can not buy any of his products except with the competition of the whole world .shut out. but -we have no law to regulate the labor market. When a man. from Belgium or Germany. or Europe generally. or Asia or Africa or South America or Mexico or Central America or the Islands of the Sea comes here to obtain work he hires himself. that is to say. he sells his product. his labor. which is all he has. in a market made cheap by * admitting the competition of the whole world.
Keywords matched
pauper labor

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
laborers from Asia laborers from Africa laborers from South America laborers from Mexico laborers from Central America
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
ZEBULON VANCE
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
NC
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
470153891
Paragraph
#0
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