Session #62 · 1911–13

Speech #620103900

It charges that the President of the United States and Andrew Carnegie have entered into an unholy alliance for the purpose of "monarchizing" American institutions and leading us back to. allegiance to the British King. King George. the whichever he is numerallyI have forgotten. There are some people who wish to use the United States Government in perpetuating European feuds for the real freedom or for the fancied benefit of European populations. and who want to see as possible instruments of that purpose as many causes of war between the United States and Great Britain left in existence as possible Impliedly. if not expressly. in the act of naturalization. such citizens promised not to be controlled by. precisely the motives by which they are now being controlled. They are acting in bad faith toward America if they do not regard their American citizenship as their first and foremost and sole allegianceall others having been foreswornand as superior to all other obligations existing between them and anybody anywhere else. At any rate. no selfrespecting Americam citizen is going to permit the American Government to be used as a catspaw for pulling out chestnuts for other peoples. however much any wrongs done them may excite our individual sympathies.
Identified stereotypes
Naturalized citizens are controlled by motives from their former countries and act in bad faith toward America.
Keywords matched
naturalization

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
⚠️ Yes
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Cultural threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
JOHN WILLIAMS
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
MS
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
620103900
Paragraph
#0
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