Session #51 · 1889–91

Speech #510139898

I will attend to that directly. When we discussed the question of the importation of contract labor we found Senators upon the other side of the Chamber claiming the credit for all that has ever been done in that regard. and when we come to the discussion of the question of the importation of cheap products of cheap labor from other countries we find them apparently willingly to throw down the bars and introduce the cheaplabor products of China and India and ot other foreign countries. There is such a thing as having goods too cheap. A labor product is too cheap if it deprives the American laborer of employment. and it is too cheap if it reduces the wages of the American laborer so that he can not live in comfort and independence and properly support his family.
Keywords matched
contract labor

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
JOSEPH DOLPH
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
OR
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
510139898
Paragraph
#0
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