Session #50 · 1887–89

Speech #500101716

They bring him to the coast. and then they enter into contract with Chinese companies organized for that purpose in San Francisco. being six in number. Mr. Koopmanscliap. a Dutchman. is one of the principal agents of these Chinese companies in manipulating contracts. le is the man who goes to your colnventions in the East and proposes to supplant free labor in the South. to reorganize labor in the South by bringing coolies there. That is time proposition of Mr. Koopmanschap. which he lies discussed before Southern conventions. that is theproposition which is being discussed in South Carolina now. and the proposition which is being discussed in Massachusetts. It is proposed to take Cliinese coolies there to supply the place of free labor. Sir. this is a proposition to introduce slave labor to compete with free labor. Again I said: I want to be heard in the name of the Republican party not only of Nevada bit of this nation.
Keywords matched
coolies

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat Other

Speaker & context

Speaker
WILLIAM STEWART
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
NV
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
500101716
Paragraph
#3
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