Session #63 · 1913–15

Speech #630133787

R. I.. who. I believe. is at the nead of the State medical officials there. and an alienist. which letter I shall put in the Rlbcon. in which lie Says that recently hundreds of Turks and Kurdsand in reply to an inquity of mine as to what the Kurds were. he said they were the people from Kurdistan. and similar to Turkswere coming there while hundreds of good men were out of employment. taking the jobs of men who wanted to toll. but who were not willing to labor at the standard of wages paid to those people. and lie says the literacy test would not only keep them out now. but it would do so for the next thousand years. T iie seems to have been a consistent effort to organize the Jews in opposition to this measure. but this bill is not aimed against them. The Jew who call read either ill Hebrew or Yiddish will be admitted. and there is hardly an adult Jew who cail not read his Bible.
Keywords matched
literacy test

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
JAMES BYRNES
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
SC
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
630133787
Paragraph
#3
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