Session #61 · 1909–11

Speech #610269704

I have nodoubt a resolution would have been unanimously passed. demanding a reduction of the earnings of the farmer. These are strange contrasts. But there are other contrasts. The American Congress shuts out the Asiatic on account of American citizenship. and then in the next breath proposes to require the farmer to furnish cheaper products while denying him cheaper labor. If the Asiatics were permitted to overflow this country and were to work with the same industry they do at home. they could produce enough from the American soil to feed onehalf the people of the civilized world. But cheap food does not mean happiness in any line. It does not even mean plenty.
Keywords matched
Asiatics Asiatic

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
LAFAYETTE YOUNG
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
IA
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
610269704
Paragraph
#0
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