Session #62 · 1911–13

Speech #620269244

By the steaniship agents abroad. There are 13.000 of them in Italy alone. There is generally one in every Province. and he has many subagents and runners. [he unconscionable steamship agent abroad. who lives in the Province with the peasant. who tempts him to leave his native land and his family and often to mortgage his old home in order to secure money for the ticket. from which the agent will get a commissionhe is the man who helps inducq our abnormal immigration. His friend. or business associate. the labor agent. on this side of the water. preying upon the imnigrant after he is admitted in a like unconscionable way. too frequently dominates him and defrauds him and lives at the expense of this his less enterpilsing countryman. In this miserable business both agents become well to do. The worst 01il is not wrought by the immigrant. but is suffered by him.
Keywords matched
immigration immigrant

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Italians
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat Victim

Speaker & context

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Unknown
Party
Chamber
State
Gender
Date
Speech ID
620269244
Paragraph
#3
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