Session #63 · 1913–15

Speech #630072300

They are simply waiting for the inevitable hour when they shall have to say to some of their men. " We will have to lay you off. Our salesmen have notified us that they can not sell our products. because foreign goods supply the demands of the market. This bill will permit merchants and manufacturers from every country in Europe and from Asiatic countries. from Japan and China and India. to sell the same kind of goods that we produce in the American market on almost equal terms with our own products." Mr. Speaker. I fear that our laborers will walk out of factories in which they have been steadily employed at an increasing wage for 16 years. and that many of thein will remain out of employment during the time that this law remains upon the statute books.
Keywords matched
Asiatic

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
PHILIP CAMPBELL
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
KS
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
630072300
Paragraph
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