Session #62 · 1911–13

Speech #620042689

How do you like this freetrade business. laboring men? How do you like the Democratic proposition of bringing into competition with you the laboring hordes of the entire world? Do you want to compete with the pauper. "coolie." and convict labor of Europe and Asia? I think not. You have about enough of that sort of competition at home now. You would rather push off the gangplanks and protect yourself against their immigration Into this country. Yes. you would rather vote also for a policy that will protect you against their competition both at home and abroad. For my part I shall vote for more stringent immigration laws whenever I have the opportunity. and shall also vote against their entering Into competition with American labor anywhere or In any manner or at any time. In establishing the various schedules with regard to revenue the Democratic Party proposes to do so by the old "giveandtake" process of tariff making. which has been the curse of every tariff measure ever passed in Congress. As a party it refuses to vote for a permanent Tariff Board. and thus take the tariff out of politics. It Is high time for the American people to rid themselves of their hysteria and settle down to sound. safe. and sane business methods in national affairs. The Republican Party proposes to revise the PayneAldrich tariff bill. but at the same time in Its revision to maintain a protective tariff sufficiently high to protect Its Industrial and commercial Industries. and to maintain a wall. if you please. high enough and broad enough to prevent the laboring men of this country from being brought into competition with the coolie labor of Asia and the cheap pauper labor of Europe.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizing about European and Asian laborers as 'pauper' and 'coolie' labor.
Keywords matched
pauper labor immigration coolie

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Asian
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
⚠️ Yes
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
EDWIN ROBERTS
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
NV
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
620042689
Paragraph
#0
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