Session #64 · 1915–17

Speech #640066056

I have only five minutes. I would rather not. Now. Mr. Chairman. my objection to this bill is that in ordinary times it will only cut down immigration by 300.000. or thereabouts. If I had my way. I should be glad to vote for a bill that would either suspend immigration altogether for the next 10 years or come mighty near it. There are 20.000.000 men mobilized in Europe. In the course of this year or next they are going to start to demobilize those 20.000.000 men. They are going to project 20.000.000 men on the ruined industries of Europe. and I have an idea that those demobilized men are going to try to come over here in vast numbers.
Keywords matched
immigration

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
AUGUSTUS GARDNER
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
MA
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
640066056
Paragraph
#0
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