Session #57 · 1901–03

Speech #570092854

The seaports are taken care of. That is the only purpose here. There is no purpose of persecuting a railroad or interfering with its legitimate business or holding up its passenger trains. The only object is to keep out immigrants who are kept out at other ports and for whose admission the border is being used. As I said. it has become such a serious abuse.that Canada herself has passed some very strict laws in regard to it. because the looseness of the administration on our borderI do not mean at this moment. but within a year or twowas such as to turn the stream of objectionable immigration into Canada.
Keywords matched
immigrants immigration

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
HENRY LODGE
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
MA
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
570092854
Paragraph
#0
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