Session #50 · 1887–89

Speech #500046032

There is no escaping this conclusion. You may pile tariffs on wheat. corn. beef. pork. and cotton mountains high and it will not increase the price of those products in this country a pennynot a farthin. The farmers wheat is sent 3.000 miles away to England. and it there comes into direct competition with wheat from the East Indies. raised by the worst pauper labor on the face of the globe. a labor so low and so halfcivilized that the American farmer can scarcely conceive ho.v degraded it is. The price ofone of the most important of the farmers crops is thus fixed by competition with wheat raised by laborers whose dress consists of halfa yard of cotton cloth. and who work for 6 cents a day. But how is it with regard to the articles which the firmer can not produce and which he must buy?
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about laborers from the East Indies being 'pauper labor' and 'half-civilized'.
Keywords matched
pauper labor

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
⚠️ Yes
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
MELBOURNE FORD
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
MI
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
500046032
Paragraph
#0
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