Session #55 · 1897–99

Speech #550139079

Once attach or annex the Hawaiian sugar planters domain and will it. not be said. "Now we are a part and parcel of you. our sugar industry has become a domestic industry by and through annexation. we can not successfully carry it on without cheap labor. You are protectionists. and you took us in. now save us from disaster?" Only a few months ago Treasury Department officials hastened to make the most of its active efforts to discover. arrest. and deport a few foreign laborers. The report was as follows: The fortyeight Austrian stave cutters recently arrested in Tennessee and Mississiupi for violation of the immigration laws in coming to this country under contract to perform manual labor will be deported from the city of Baltimore tomorrow. And yet Congress proposes to "annex " contract labor by the thousand in Hawaii! It became quite apparent that the annexationists are holding out encouragement to the sugar planters that they will be able to evade our "contractlabor" laws. Article 5 of the "annexation" treaty simply prohibits the entry into Hawaii of any more Chinese. but even to that there is a string.
Keywords matched
immigration contract labor deported

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
SAMUEL MCENERY
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
LA
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
550139079
Paragraph
#1
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