Session #50 · 1887–89

Speech #500051484

One pair of fivepound blankets .......................... $2.51 $0.35 $1. go one other pair of blankets .................................... 2.70 .70 1.89 One pound of sewing silk .. ......................... 5.56 .85 1.69 One gallon of linseedoil ....................................... . .46 .02 .25 One ton of bariron ............................................... a 1.10 10.00 17.92 One ton of pigiron ................................................ 11.00 1.64 6.72 One ton of steel rails ............................................... 31.00 7.57 17.00 One w ool suit ......................................................... 12.00 2.00 6.48 One cotton suit ....................................... 10.50 1.65 3.67 One dozen goblets ...................... . ................ .48 .15 .19 One hundred pounds of mixed paints............. 9.50 .4t 2.00 T otal tariff ..................................................... ............... 59.71 Now. if these goods are manufactured in a foreign country and shipped here the Governmant will get the tariff. but if they are manufactured in this country the Goyernment will not get the tariff. but the money will go into the pockets of the manufacturers. Now. will the nanufacturer divide the profits with the laborer? No. The fact is that the manufacturer will employ labor as cheap as he can. and if he can not get it cheap enough in this country he will import the pauper laborers of Europe here under an equally infamous convictlabor law enacted by the Republican party. What do the Jay Goulds and Vanderbilts pay for labor? An average of $1.10 per day.
Identified stereotypes
Implying manufacturers will exploit European laborers by importing them and paying them low wages.
Keywords matched
pauper labor

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
EDWARD LANE
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
IL
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
500051484
Paragraph
#3
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