Session #52 · 1891–93

Speech #520048959

Young is a credible witness. the Chinese Government is not to blame for any amount of immnigration to the soil of the United States of their people. He says: The Chinese are blamed for what is our own fault. We denounce the Chinese Government for the immigration of Chinese and overlook the fact that this irmtgtationisfrom an Englishport andunder the English flag. and that China has no more control over it than over the immigration of Irishmen from Londonderry. If that assertion be true. coming from our late minister to China. we should be careful not to insult or outrage the sentiment of the people of China or the Government of China one hairs breadth further than is absolutely necessary to exercise the right of sellpreservation for our own people. w am wlling. if I believed it was necessary. to go as far s any Senator from the Pacific Slope to protect the people of this country from this inundation of Chinese. In the Southern States tvhe ha seen the ruinous effect of.taking a people unprepared for citizenship who know nothing about making laws and suddenly lifting them into the sphere of determining The destiny of the people of the United States.
Keywords matched
immigration

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Irish
Sentiment
Mixed
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
GEORGE VEST
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
MO
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
520048959
Paragraph
#1
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