Session #61 · 1909–11

Speech #610178370

To get these goods into our market free would add millions to the hoard of these already very wealthy people. and at the same time it would keep every dollar they thus send to Japan and China and more which they now get as extra profits out of the hands of our laborers. who with steady employment at fair wages are the market which keeps the prices of the farmers products at living figures. This propaganda inaugurated by the yellow press to discredit protection and all persons who may be friendly thereto is depriving the laborer of his living and the farmer of his customers. They are also assisting those who employ this pauper labor to greatly increased profits. These Americans who own factories in China and Japan will sell the goods manufactured by this pauper labor for as high a price as is possible and at the same time undersell the smaller merchant. When by this process they have put our local merchants out of business. which they will just as surely do as the Standard Oil has squelched their competitors by a like process. they will then sell all their goods as high or higher than the consumer pays for these goods now. And one class of these consumers will have lost his employment and the farmer will have lost his best customers for what he raises.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that Chinese and Japanese laborers are 'pauper labor' who take jobs from American workers.
Keywords matched
pauper labor

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
⚠️ Yes
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
WILLIAM REEDER
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
KS
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
610178370
Paragraph
#0
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