Session #60 · 1907–09

Speech #600089349

Within these compartments long tables and benches are placed on which meals are served. These passengers eat and sleep in these foul compartments. the atmosphere of which is filled with diseasespreading baccilli. The small space provided for these bunks makes It a physical impossibility for an adult occupant to obtain rest. It Is literally true that these passengers are huddled together like so many sheep In a pen. The ordinary stock cars provide more space and air for the animals that are quartered in them than do the steerage compartments of an ocean liner. This statement may appear Ironical. but it is true. This description is no exaggeration of what I have seen.
Keywords matched
steerage

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Victim Humanitarian

Speaker & context

Speaker
WILLIAM BENNET
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
NY
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
600089349
Paragraph
#4
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