Session #61 · 1909–11

Speech #610087453

Dorohoiu. Ploesci. Jassy. and other places in Roumania. and came back. the only man connected with immigration who has been present and able to state what the conditions in Roumiania are in relation to the emigration there today. That completed my official tour. I could have devoted. if I pleased. the remainder of my time to a leisurely trip back to Liverpool. where we were to take the steamer. I did not do it. I went into Russia. traveling. as I had to travel. in secondclass cars. went to Berdichev. a place that never before had seen an Americanborn citizen. From there I went to Kiev and Warsaw. where I went through every slui-:. then visited Vilna and Bialystok. places from which the people emigrate to this country. and then into Germany at Eydtkunen and back to Liverpool. I was not one single day absent from my work. and the length of the trip which I have sketchedfrom Sicily in the south to the North Sea in the north. to Bethlehem on the south and Kief on the eastall over the map of Europe from which emigration comes except the one place. Austria. indicate what a futile and what a ridiculous thing is the charge that the trip like that was a Junket. I was to be accompanied on my southern trip by Mr.
Keywords matched
emigrate immigration emigration

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
WILLIAM BENNET
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
NY
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
610087453
Paragraph
#5
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