Session #67 · 1921–23

Speech #670286601

I hope he will let the workingmen in Connecticut know before next November comes whether he thinks the remedy 9or the situation which he alleges exists lies in a continuation of existing tariff rates or in rates which would give the employers in the State of Connecticut reasonable protection against their competitors from abroad. If he adheres to the tariff plank in the last Democratic platform. which denounced protective tariffs. if he adheres to the timehonored policy of the Democratic Party that protective tariffs are not only unconstitutional but that they are fraudulent and a tax upon the many for the benefit of the few. I hope he will frankly state his position in the State of Connecticut. for I want to say. and say emphat. ically. that Connecticut has no more use for the Democratic theory relative to protection than it has for a frost in August or the Asiatic cholera. The writer goes on to say: During the latter part of the year 1921 the city of New Britain. Conn.. had to make an appropriation out of the municipal funds to send back to Spain and Portugal large numbers of cheap foreign laborers that they had brought in there (I refer to the manufacturers). and who were living in such filthy conditions that the city authorities of New Britain thought the best thing to do was to send them out of the city.
Identified stereotypes
Foreign laborers are described as living in filthy conditions.
Keywords matched
Asiatic

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
⚠️ Yes
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat Other

Speaker & context

Speaker
GEORGE MCLEAN
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
CT
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
670286601
Paragraph
#0
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