Session #63 · 1913–15

Speech #630136911

I do not believe in the unlawful destruction of property or in anything else that is unlawful. and the gentlemin knows that. I think a question of that kind is an insult. When you go to make a law and say that anything is unlawfu]. and leave It to the Commissioner of Immigration to determine whether or not a given act is unlawful. you give him too much power. In Alaska it is said that the Guggenheims employed some gunmen on a certain occasion to stop the building of a railroad. and they engaged in some things of that kind. In every new country and in every new development there are strikes and differences of opinion among men. and some men may destroy a little property or somethinga scuttle or two of coal or a dollars worth of propertyand then they become subject to this provision. because it is construed that they teach the unlawful destruction of property.
Keywords matched
Immigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
JAMES BRYAN
Party
P
Chamber
H
State
WA
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
630136911
Paragraph
#0
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