Session #66 · 1919–21

Speech #660148897

Mr. President. will a spirit. whether we call it bolshevism or something else. manifest itself. find expression. and win converts. and until we recognize that fact and meet it. as the great middle class of this country must meet it sooner or later by recognizing its causes and removing them. just so long will legislation like this prove to be palliative and nothing. niore. We are deporting aliens who. while they enjoy the blessings and the benefits of Americani freedom. have lifted their hands an(d voices against the Government. and I lam heartily in fa.vor of deporting them. No mnrt who has not availed himself of the privileges of citizenship here. but who takes advantage of his presence to preach violence and destruction. should be permitted to stay within the jurisdiction of the United States one moment longer than it is necessary to apprehend and to remove hit. to send him back to.tile country of his origin. But that will not prevent their coming. I have here a very significant cartoon from a paper in my Rtate. the Denver Post. entitled " Ships That Pass in the Night." the design showing one ship going in one direction filled with deportations. another passing iii the other .direction. labeled "Foreign Immigration to the United States." -We can place limitations upon that condition if we will. but it is there. and until the spirit of the people and their apprehensions are aroused to the same degree and to the same extent that the enthusiasm of the Bolshevists manifests itself. just so long will it remain. if it does not expand. Apprehension has been expressed here regarding the circulation of revolutionary literature among the negroes in the South. That is deplorable.
Keywords matched
Immigration deportations deporting

Classification

Also mentioned
negroes
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Security threat Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
CHARLES THOMAS
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
CO
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
660148897
Paragraph
#0
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