Session #50 · 1887–89

Speech #500053192

About onethird of our help are Canadians. the remainder are of mixed nationalities. the Irish element preponderating. Then come the English. the Seotch. and the German. Q. WhIat proportion of them are Americans? A. Out of eight hundred operatives. probably we have eighty Americans.Labor and Capitol. volume 3. page 28. That is the kind of return these manufacturing establishments give to the people for the protection the Government extends to them against foreign "pauper labor." They enter the freetrade market of the world. purchase foreign labor and bring it here. to exclude American labor. Is that good faith? On this same point we have the testimony of Mr.
Keywords matched
pauper labor

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Irish English Seotch German
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
JAMES WEAVER
Party
N
Chamber
H
State
IA
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
500053192
Paragraph
#0
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