Session #57 · 1901–03

Speech #570044171

I know what the oriental trade did for my grandfather. I know that in my family there are still the evidences of the trade with Shanghai and the profits that came from trade and have descended to us. I know of great fortunes made in New England as the result of the Asiatic trade. when our section became wise enough to cease dealing witheir fellowme in rum In the West Indies and elsewhere and adopted a commercial policy of trade with the Orient. Mr. President. it is clearly the purpose of certain corporate in: terests to ultimately get Chinese cooly labor into this country.
Keywords matched
Asiatic

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic contributor

Speaker & context

Speaker
HENRY HEITFELD
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
ID
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
570044171
Paragraph
#5
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