Session #50 · 1887–89

Speech #500053921

If you reduce their products to a specie basis. and put them on the same footing they were on before the war. the present rates of duty would be too high. It would not be necessary for scarce any branch of industry to be protected to tie extent of your present tariff law. They do not ask protection against the pauper labor of Europe. but they ask protection against the violation of your own laws. These are our paper currency and our internal taxation. You have repealed every burden imposed on the manufacturer under the internal taxation except as to alcohol. and we are on a specie basis. and yet you asseverate. with a display of intense passion. thata bill proposing changes so much m6re moderate is. in its conception British. in its design unpatriotic. and in its effects fatal.
Identified stereotypes
European labor is described as 'pauper labor'.
Keywords matched
pauper labor

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
⚠️ Yes
Confidence
80%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
WILLIAM BRECKINRIDGE
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
KY
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
500053921
Paragraph
#0
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