Session #54 · 1895–97

Speech #540100214

I have read the reportfff the Commissioner of Immigration. That is all I desire to say. He suggests several pages of amendments and changes and improvements in the law which it would talke weeks and months to perfect into a bill. The argument that I referred to when I said that he made the strongest argument in behalf of this bill was that if the bill had been a law 75.000 immigrants who have come to the country this year would not have entered. We all know there are a great many persons in this country today unemployed. We differ as to the reasons for that fact. but we all deplore it. and we certainly are not going to benefit the condition of those unemployed persons or to make their numbers any less by opening our gates without restriction. as we do. to the unemployed of all the rest of .the world.
Keywords matched
immigrants Immigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
HENRY LODGE
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
MA
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
540100214
Paragraph
#0
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