Session #63 · 1913–15

Speech #630005095

It is not protected largess which the people want. they want only justicesimply free and exact justice. The American laborer. both man and woman. has been used up by the highly protected "mill They and their offspring have gone in the dividends. while their wrccl ed bodies have been thrown as so much refuse upon the culm bank or junk heap of American industry. We have allowed our factories. after using up a generation of Aniericans. to swallow up the incoming immigrant "as if he were the soulless raw material of manufacture." while our hillsides and valleys are untilled and the price of food products empties the market basket. Our industrial system Is out of joint. the premium on factory work must be taken off. the proper economic relation between manufacturing and other lines must be restored. We must encourage agriculture. let efficiency have a chance. break up the controlled relations of our systems of transportation with large manufacturing interests. and maintain the "open door" of industrial success.
Identified stereotypes
Immigrants are soulless raw materials of manufacture.
Keywords matched
immigrant

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
JOSEPH FORDNEY
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
MI
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
630005095
Paragraph
#0
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