Session #64 · 1915–17

Speech #640217161

As I said a while ago. we have something like 100.000 Japanese men in this country. A very large proportion of them are in California. Two years ago I visited the Immigration station at San Francisco. and at that time there were In the station that had just *come over from Japan. about 30 of these socalled "picture brides." They are scattered throughout California. The man who has selected one of them by a picture that has been sent him comes to San Francisco. they are married there at the immigration station. and go out Into California. There will be enough of them before very long to mate with all of the 100.000 Japanese men. perhaps 75.000 of whom are in the State of California. and do you know wlat that means? It means the propagation of Japanese In the State of California by the thousands. and whenever a Japanese child is born In California it becomes a .citizen of the State. � There have been laws passed in California to prevent the permanent holding of land by Japanese. but they are evading that provision of the California statute by having the land conveyed to the children who are nativeborn citizens.
Keywords matched
Immigration immigration

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
JOHN WORKS
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
CA
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
640217161
Paragraph
#1
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