Session #62 · 1911–13

Speech #620137310

Bennet disagreed with that. The commission as a whole recommends restriction as demanded by economic. moral. and social considerations. furnishes In Its report reasons for such restriction. and points out methods by which Congress can attain the desired result if its judgment coincides with that of the commission. I have called attention especially to these various features of this class of immigration in order that the Senate may see how the educational test may bear upon the problem to be solved. If you examine the evidence relating to the old immigration. to which I have so many times referred. you will find that only 217 per cent of the whole were illiterate. while of the new immigration. taken as a whole. 35.6 per cent are illiterate. The average of the whole would be about 26 per cent.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about the illiteracy rate of new immigrants compared to old immigrants.
Keywords matched
immigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
⚠️ Yes
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
WILLIAM DILLINGHAM
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
VT
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
620137310
Paragraph
#0
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