Session #55 · 1897–99

Speech #550132433

All the crown lands which will ever be opened to homestead entry are too dry to till without irrigation and so high up in the air that irrigation is impossible. Even if there are valuable crown lands which have never been broken to the plow and fertilized by water. they are not for our children and other white people of our breed. for the allsufficient reason that they can not endure outdoor work in that sultry climate. More farming lands there simply mean more Chinese cheap labor. more Chinese contract labor. more Chinese and Japanese slave labor. brought into our country to compete with our free white labor. Such an outrageous and iniquitous performance is forbidden by good morals. as well as by an exalted love of country. But the annexationists have their plan like the niggers coon trap. "set to catch em gwine and comin." They at first gave it out that the reason we needed the islands was that we could then grow for ourselves all the sugar we wanted. representing that the canesugar industry out there was only in its infancy. and could be increased ad libitum.
Identified stereotypes
Chinese and Japanese are cheap/slave labor competing with white labor.
Keywords matched
contract labor

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Japanese
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
⚠️ Yes
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
JAMES CLARK
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
MO
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
550132433
Paragraph
#0
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