Session #67 · 1921–23

Speech #670322386

President. continuing the quotation. this time from the New York Journal of Commerce. to which I need not pay my compliments as a purely trade and industrial paper. it says: The almost unparalleled drop of 13.8 per cent In the condition of the cottoh crop reported today by the Department of Agriculture lowers the estimated yield for 1922 to 10.575.000 bales. What the midsummer deterioration means in an economic way to the southern planters is manifest. for the reduction in the bales. due to the difference In condition. represents more than $100.000.000 less at the prevailing price of cotton. Pretty nearly $1 for every man. woman. and child in the United States. whether naturalized or alien. Detailed reports are beginning to come In. * * * Farmers who a fortnight ago thought they had a good crop see it deteriorating every day. In northern and liter parts of the StateAlabama Is the State being referred tosquares are eaten as quickly as they form and the farmers in the earlier sections find weevil pupa in what appear to be good bolls.
Keywords matched
naturalized

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
70%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
JOHN WILLIAMS
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
MS
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
670322386
Paragraph
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