Session #47 · 1881–83

Speech #470165354

That is the pauper labor which our constls say is almost as well paid as is paid its Massachusetts. He went Oil to say: I thinkc it is instossibleto aeeount for this extraorditary improvetment it the wages of agrieultral laborers. of bricksetters and carpenters. and all your factory operatives. and all your mechanics. upon any other theory than this lthab the new policy with regard to trade. which has tuade your trade fourfold. has beets the cause which has made this stupendous and uninagined improvetent in the condition of tse people. [Chcers.] I may be pursuing a very mistaken policy all through the bill. but nsy leading purpose is to give our people cheap raw material. to gtve them good wages. to give them plenty of work. to extend the trade of our manufacturers. -and not protect them to death by giving them a license to rob all the people of this country and reach nobody else. Carrying out what Mr.
Keywords matched
pauper labor

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
JAMES BECK
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
KY
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
470165354
Paragraph
#0
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