Session #56 · 1899–1901

Speech #560036173

We are paying $100.000.000 annually for sugar in this country. We want to manufacture it at home. from our beet sugar. raised by American farmers. We do not want the cheap peon contract labor. receiving 10. 15 or 20 cents a day. to come into competition with the labor of South Carolina and California. I think. perhaps. that is one of the reasons which influenced our good President. because his whole life has been devoted to protection to American industries and the elevation and dignity of labor. But this is a longer statement than I was going to make. and I see I am wearying the Senator from South Carolina.
Keywords matched
contract labor

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
GEORGE PERKINS
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
CA
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
560036173
Paragraph
#0
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