Session #55 · 1897–99

Speech #550167936

It will let in their products free of duty to compete with American products just as soon as Congress has performed its constitutional mandate and its sworn duty to extend the actual application of the laws to them. The ratification of the treaty will not leave them outside of the Constitution. It will enable them to scramble over or crawl under or get in. any way that they please to come in. It will nullify our immigration laws against alien labor. It will nullify our immigration laws against all the races of the East who are at present prohibited from coming here. It will put the goods and manufactures and products of the Philippine Islands and all of its workmen into competition with those of the American workmen. Now.
Keywords matched
immigration alien labor

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
JOHN DANIEL
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
VA
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
550167936
Paragraph
#4
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