Session #63 · 1913–15

Speech #630132264

This is said in all fairness. and not against any one race or people. Mr. Chairman. I think it is evident to every man here that the time is here when the United States shall declare that it can no further be an asylum for the oppressed of all the world. The exact form that the restriction bill shall take is not so important as that the step be takenanything that will restrict. Now. Jefferson said: Spare no expense in obtaining Immigrants. But in Jeffersons time. my friends. we had a country to give away. And we have given it away.
Keywords matched
Immigrants

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
ALBERT JOHNSON
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
WA
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
630132264
Paragraph
#1
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