Session #53 · 1893–95

Speech #530006415

That must certainly occur if the Democracy shall go on. after we shall have settled the currency question. to strike down protection to our industries by the vicious tatiff legislation with which it threatens the country. Our factories and furnaces will not always be idle. Even if free trade shall inundate them with a flood of foreign cheaplabor products. they will eventually emerge from the deluge. but only by employing our idle and impoverished workingmen at European and Asiatic cheap wages. The gentleman from Missouri. in his earnest. impassioned appeal for free coinage. said: Will you trample down the interests of your own people and destroy the value of one of the precious metals. simply to gratify the greed of Wall streetamere agent of Lombard street? Itcan not. it shall not be done. [Aplause.] Any body or any party who undertakes to do it will. in Gods name. be trampledas it ought to bein the dust of condemnation now and In the future. [Continued applause on the floor and galleries.] I speak as a Democrat. but yet as an American above Democracy. [Cheers.] We do not intend that any party shall survive. if we can help it. that will lay its confiscating hand on America in the interest of England or Europe.
Keywords matched
Asiatic

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
80%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
SETH MILLIKEN
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
ME
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
530006415
Paragraph
#1
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