Session #54 · 1895–97

Speech #540118148

Philadelphia. and Pittsburg. and among the mines. the mills. the factories. and the coke ovens in these three States. and. in the name of my State. I demand that legislation be enacted that will relieve us from this imposition. This bill will restrict immigration. not wholly. nor even sufficiently. but it will restrict it to some extent. Properly enforced. -properly construed. it will keep out of Pennsylvania. New York. and Massachusetts about 1 in 4 who now come in. If these immigrants entered into the professions and among the ranks of skilled labor. it would not fall with such a heavy hand upon that class of people who are known as common laborers. Let us look at the report and see what occupations were followed by thosewho came last year. Of the 343.269 who came. 50 of them were lawyers. 147 were clergymen. 19 -were editors. 143 of them were physicians..
Keywords matched
immigrants immigration

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
WILLIAM STONE
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
PA
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
540118148
Paragraph
#1
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