Session #53 · 1893–95

Speech #530044218

HARTER. trying to prove that workmen in England left estates. on an average of $1.700 to each man. and then depicting the prosperity and happy condition of the laboring man there. There was one fact which the gentleman left out of his calculation. a fact which knocks his statistics higher than Beechers famous work ever soared . and that was the fact that these same laboring men. whenever they can get enough money from this side. come over here to better their condition and were never known to go back until the Democratic panic of 1892 struck this country. The tide of immigration has been this way until last August. but now the Democratic Commissioner of Immigration. in an in.terview in the public press. tells us that more people are going back to the old countries than are coming here from the old countries. Mr. Chairman. that shows the change in conditions which has come about because of your threat to ruin the industries of this country.
Keywords matched
immigration Immigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic contributor

Speaker & context

Speaker
SERENO PAYNE
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
NY
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
530044218
Paragraph
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