Session #54 · 1895–97

Speech #540118225

Those fertile lands are all absorbed. That great field of labor has been filled. The work has been completed. There are no railways numbered by thousands of miles each year now being constructed. There are no inviting homesteads awaiting the advent of the industrious and enterprising immigrant fromi abroad. Again. the character of the immigration is largely changed. Now it comes from eastern Europe. The old sources of supply do not now furnish the immigrant. save in comparatively small numbers. Now it is composed of an entirely different class of people from those we had to deal with years ago. Mr.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizing about the negative qualities of immigrants from Eastern Europe.
Keywords matched
immigration immigrant

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
⚠️ Yes
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat Cultural threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
WILLIAM HEPBURN
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
IA
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
540118225
Paragraph
#2
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