Session #62 · 1911–13

Speech #620258159

I understand the gentlemans views. but his argument is the same as to say that if you have two watering troughs by the side of each other. connected by a tube at the bottom. that you can fill one of them full of water and the water will not run into the other. So long as the people from Europe can come to the United States without restriction and conditions are better in this country. they will come. and there is no way by which conditions of labor can be kept to a higher standard here in the future than in European countries without restriction upon European immigration. If you are going to have unrestricted immigration from European countries in this manner. you can not by artificial methods. by a protective tariff or otherwise. maintain better conditions for labor in the United States than anywhere else-
Keywords matched
immigration

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
ABRAHAM LAFFERTY
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
OR
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
620258159
Paragraph
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