Session #55 · 1897–99

Speech #550040959

John River. and there. under the old statutes. it is manufactured by American citizens. and as American lumber it is brought back free. It is American lumber to all intents. The Senate put on the words "cut by American labor." The Senator will remember when the matter was up that the provision was inserted that this lumber should be manufactured by American labor. so that the crews which drove the lumberand many of them are engaged also in sawing lumber and are expert in thatmight be our American citizens: but immediately the provincial legislature passed an extreme alien laboract forbidding this very thing. so that no American labor can be employed in these mills. We are entirely at their mercy. It is not that we shall retaliate.
Keywords matched
alien laboract

Classification

Target group
None Specific
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
EUGENE HALE
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
ME
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
550040959
Paragraph
#0
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