Session #67 · 1921–23

Speech #670175519

I say " No.. I will only distinguish between them on the basis of disability. I can not support a measure which will take the recently arrived immigrant who takes out his first citizenship papers and. with a fine spirit of loyalty. enlists in the Army of the United States in the great emergency. and loses a leg. and pay that man less for the loss of his leg than the man who happened to be a sergeant. just over him. That is the principle of this bill. although the bill does not affect enlisted men at all. If we distinguish between officers rank by rank. we will have to distinguish between the enlisted men grade by grade. and we would reach an impossible situation. and one fraught with injustice. one which we would never be able to defend.
Keywords matched
immigrant

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Positive
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural Family values

Speaker & context

Speaker
JAMES WADSWORTH
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
NY
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
670175519
Paragraph
#0
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