Session #63 · 1913–15

Speech #630376699

You have gone further. and I am opposed fields are. how happy the climate. how fertile the soil. and all to the old law in that particular. to going further back. and I am the balance of it. She had. much to her own astonishment and opposed to both of them for the very reason I was stating. Here mine. stumbled over certain provisions of the immigration law is this woman who made a good record. a very intelligent woman. which prevented her at that timeI did not know what were a lecturer. who wanted to prepare a lecture upon Dixie. the land the particular provisions. but I expect it was this language: she lived in and the land she loved. and meant thereby to tell That It shall be unlawful for any person. company. partnership. or the English and Scottish people about Dixie. and she found out corporation. in any manner whatsoever. to prepay the transportation that she was about to stumble into a violation of the innigraor in any way to induce. assist. encourage. or solicit. tion laws of the United States for doing what? By going to The balance of it might stand very well without the word Scotland and telling what a great country of undeveloped and "encourage." and I do not see how it could have been with that sublime resources Dixie is. I do not think we ought to have al me very wrong. Then this committee has put in "or attempt any such law capable of such construction as that upon the statto induce. assist. encourage. or solicit." ute books. The language now upon the statute books makes it I have no objection to making a law against those who in- a crime to "encourage." and the language proposed. adds to it duce or assist or solicit or attempt to induce. assist. or solicit. " to attempt to encourage." I move to strike out the word but when you come to saying that a man has committed a crime "encourage" in both places. who has encouraged immigration to the United States. that is Mr. SMITH of South Carolina. If the Senator from Missisgoing too far.
Keywords matched
immigration

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
English people Scottish people
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
JOHN WILLIAMS
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
MS
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
630376699
Paragraph
#0
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