Session #52 · 1891–93

Speech #520036576

But home productions decrease as importations increase. and it is therefore plain as the noonday that the freetraders dream will have been realized and his millenium will have come with the destruction of our industries and the loss of our independence. Foreign products as against home products become the creatures of governmental regard. since from them come the sources of supply for its Treasury. A revenue tariff says welcome to the products of the Coolie labor of India and the pauper toil of China. welcome to the manufactures made by the starvation wages of Wales and Belgium. welcome. men of all races and climes. kindreds and tongues. toiling as slaves and living like beasts to a competition with freemen in an American environment. with American wants. privileges. habits. and American manhood. There is no man within the sound of my voice who does not know that a revenue tariff would strike down American manufactures. in which millions of money are invested and hundreds of thousands of men employed. would shut furnace doors. and make their smokeless stacks the sad monuments of industrial ruin. would still the music of the loom and the spindle. bankrupt American capital. and put out the fire upon the hearthstone of American labor. For many a workman without work it would give the alternative of starvation or beggary.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizes about Asian laborers as 'coolies' and 'paupers'.
Keywords matched
Coolie

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
⚠️ Yes
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
JOHN DALZELL
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
PA
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
520036576
Paragraph
#0
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