Session #50 · 1887–89

Speech #500101639

The Senator from Kansas . The same Senator further instructs us as to our duty out of this measure and out of the circumstances under which it comes into existence here before this body. "But." says he." I pass that. because"Hear this! "because conceding to other localities the same rights that I demand for my own. and resting upon the maxims and dogmas of local selfgovernment and homa rule. I am prepared to say that the communities upon the Pacific coast"Whom I have described as at this moment under an overmastering passio I "have a right to judge for themselves as to tle propriety in an economical sense of this immigration. and when they have spoken throigh their authorized representatives. with their declaration I shall be content." The only condition upon which such supporters of this legislation have dechued that their support shall be given to it. from whieh their very instincts revolt. is that they shall not be required to stand it over tell years.
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immigration

Classification

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Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural Economic threat

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Speech ID
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