Session #61 · 1909–11

Speech #610210926

It is quite a different thing. however. to declare it a crime for an alien to come regularly and habitually into the United States for the purpose of obtaining work from private parties if such alien returns from time to time to a foreign country. and to constitute any employment of such alien a criminal offense. When we consider these provisions of the bill in connection with our long northern frontier and the boundaries of our States and Territories. often but an imaginary line separating them from the British Dominion and recall the friendly intercourse between the people who are neigbbors on either side. the provisions of this bill affecting them must be regarded as illiberal. narrow. and unAmerican. Was It not significant when the head of the Democratic party said that the provision in reference to the restriction of immigration by educational test. etc.. "must be regarded as Illiberal. narrow. and unAmerican?" So you have the exact position of the Democratic party as to the open door for competitive labor in this country. regardless from whence It may come. Let me remind my good friend from Alabama that it will take more than he can say. and more than a Democratic theory. to convice the laboring people or the business people or any other commonsense class of citizens of the United States that the Republican party is not the progressive. doing. active. and wideawake party for and of the people of this country. The recent tariff law is the best tariff law that was ever passed.
Keywords matched
immigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
ADNA JOHNSON
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
OH
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
610210926
Paragraph
#3
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