Session #64 · 1915–17

Speech #640196220

Shall we have the courage to challenge the power which opposes its passage? It is said that so many people will have been slaughtered In the war that we need have no fear. I was enlightened a few weeks ago by reading an editorial In one of the great metropolitan dailies to the effect that there would be no occasion for immigration laws after the war shall have closed. that there would be such a sacrifice of life that we must necessarily conclude there would be no occasion for an undue amount of immigration in this country. There Is In those belligerent countries a population estimated at 450.000.000. If we make the estimate according to the ordinary rule. that would give us in those belligerent countries 90.000.000 working people. rather I should say 90.000.000 adult.people. and according to the ordinary estimate 80 per cent of the adults perform labor in some way. occupy themselves in the industrlill world so that they may be classed as laborers.
Keywords matched
immigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
WILLIAM BORAH
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
ID
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
640196220
Paragraph
#1
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