Session #63 · 1913–15

Speech #630381801

There will be some armaments destroyed. some navies in the bottom of the sea. new racial questions and new questions of political persecution will necessarily. unless a very great tolerance be shown in the settlement of the question. again ensue. I rather favor here enlarging this amendment. Instead of striking out the literacy test I would enlarge the bill. if I had my views to control. so that all racial. political. and religious persecutions might be a sufficient cause. if the immigrant were otherwise qualified. for admittance. This country- was founded on religious persecution. a large part of it. The New Englanders came here on that ground.
Keywords matched
immigrant literacy test

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Positive
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
LAWRENCE SHERMAN
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
IL
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
630381801
Paragraph
#13
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