Session #64 · 1915–17

Speech #640216224

I can not understand either why the line should be drawn through China. including a part of China in the excluded.-district and leaving a part of China out of the excluded district. About the -same race of people. speaking generally. inhabit all parts of China. They are two races. the original Chinaman and his conqueror. the Manchu. and simply because this committee has seen fit to -take a pen -and draw two lines on a map and say within. that boundary nobody shall come and outside. of that boundary everybody shallcome if he. can pass a literacy test -and the health test is no reason why the Senate should follow the particular lines drawn by the committee. Now. I want Senators- to understand. if they can see this. map [exhibiting]. that It is proposed to exclude every hiumanbeing. whether he is yellow or white. whether his blood is Jewish or whether it is what is commonly termed Russian. -or whether it be Polish. or whether it be a Germanic strain. -or any other strain.
Keywords matched
literacy test

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Jewish Russian Polish Germanic
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
JAMES REED
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
MO
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
640216224
Paragraph
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