Session #67 · 1921–23

Speech #670019446

Most of. hem-. ssessedlittle beyond i the sean thy:.sum i required for admittance. Virtually all of them immediately betook -themselves to the foreign " colonies" that have been established :in -American cities as .OidWrld. "mrt iyvrs.-s.distitctsa ready " verroWded beyond "decent andhealtlful .housing.capacity. fmostofthem ailreadycOntainIng thousands of idle woikingrnen. At the time this steamship and others with like cargoes:of human 4lotsam !were. coming to - our shores .Congress Was Conducting -hearings on the subject of immigration. It aslistenlngvith -the--usual congressional gravity to the spokESmcn6f this. "that or another- nationality. ".all ileading thlat -the Iway.df1:their brethren - gbroad - Into the land of promlse and plenty -mlght be free -and -unhampered. One -observer notekd. with keen perception. that "there were :few spokesmen for ..America present." Wit wgs admittedduritng thehearlngsi that- anyaction- Conpyess might thkeat ithe time would -be only temporary.Plio attenpt woulnd -.bemade toarrive ata.well~studidand"soundimmigration:-program designed to mineet :tlie greatdit need and the greatect g odd tthe country as a whole. .Yetthat -is exactly whatwe arcsupposed to have Congretis forto O.0ik out -sound -and -enduing solutions :for our- serious national problis. :suhl6 is:this.iuedtlon:6fvhb6lesale imnligri tion has7 become. Fal.feto neet the Isue.:squarely And -decisively. one"way or..another. is a tacit admission of the inability or theunuwillIngness"6f Congressto handle it. The average American can findlittle. comfort in either. explanation" he can only conclude that either heailiberor the dominant motie- of our -national tlgislators -has deseeded. to asorry. ldv~l. It has been maintained bythe.:dvocates of -UnrestriCted.immigration that some of this human oveimfi0w Soonerorlater -will reach the agricultural sections. It has not shown any tendencyli that direftlon yet. ".Andj -hat .IfitIdoes? -The .Amrilcaniffrmir is Dot Likely:.to be:able .tosn6dk Yiddish..or. Croatianor any oftheother--auguages or.dialects .ofls thcaftEdrope. AfVarmhanlto whom he cknnot explaln what le wants done aiid how to do it is of no use tothe alreadyhurrled farmer. He can not affordtokeep a.-n:inteirpreter. Moreover. there is a reasonable doubt whether the -American farmer wants this new type of Immigrant. to turn -to the -.land. .:-erhaps it would mean i--ai fiw!.years! arcouipition geardd to -standaids:of living and working much lower tlin the Aimericana anertcanrdr:will :en lure. California farmers haehad.-toface someof tlhat -sort. 6f.eonpetition . -so "have~ginaltthern fariers .so lhas auere than one "New England farmer. In no case has it:.nimde. for colittfitmfltitud progress. but has Iresultedin iracal thifferences.: bitterness.amid:qdte often thesdeparturo 6fthe. old- Unierican .tdek- fronI the- laud.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizes that immigrants live in overcrowded 'foreign colonies' and that farmers cannot communicate with them due to language barriers.
Keywords matched
Immigrant immigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
⚠️ Yes
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat Cultural threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
JOHN RAKER
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
CA
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
670019446
Paragraph
#0
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