Session #63 · 1913–15

Speech #630134855

Not one. I am willing to answer the question for you all. Then. does this literacy test help you in that respect? It certainly does. In your States today you are spending millions upon millions of dollars to educate the children of this land to hold up American standards of life and living. Only a few weeks ago this Congress passed a bill carrying a number of millions of dollars to promote education among our farming classes. Then. If you admit that education is one of the standards that must be maintained. why should you welcome immigrants who are not up to your standard of education and your standard of life In that respect any more than you would welcome the criminal or insane who are not up to the standards of our mental and moral life? The statistics can not be denied. I saw in one of these reports a statement that has not been contradicted. made by Mr.
Keywords matched
immigrants literacy test

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
OSCAR UNDERWOOD
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
AL
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
630134855
Paragraph
#1
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