Session #64 · 1915–17

Speech #640068363

These immigrants will be brought through the Panama Canal by foreign ships. taken to Vancouver. and there they will be examined on foreign soil. the place for examination will be furnished by. the Canadian Pacific Railroad. and after examination such as desire will be passed on. into the United States. In the first place. all the money expended in relation thereto is spent on foreign soil instead of on American soil. In the next place. the Canadian land agents. the immigration officers. will have the first opportunity at these men when they are landed there. They will hold out inducements for them to remain in that country. they will get the cream of the immigration. and what they do not want will be permitted to come to the .United States. I see n6 reason whi we should continue to favor the foreign railroad and steamship companies in preference to our own. Every Chinaman that comes to this country today who enters the United States anywhere coming east of the Pacific coast borders enters the northwest at Vancouver and is carried by the Canadian Pacific Railroad.
Keywords matched
immigration immigrants

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
WILLIAM HUMPHREY
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
WA
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
640068363
Paragraph
#0
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