Session #68 · 1923–25

Speech #680076408

We are under no obligations to incorporate in our social framework the poorest quality of European manhood and womanhood. and the quicker we deport the unassimilable we now have the better for America. As the last boatload of these undesirables left our shores for foreign ports they sang " To hell with America." Certain highbrows profess to be shocked that our doors are to be practically closed to aliens. They claim they want to Americanize these aliens. when the danger is that we will allenize America if we continually allow steamship companies to profit by pouring into our country a steady stream of cheap alien laborers. many of whom are people with a strange religion. are radical or red. hating our customs and disloyal to our flag. That our people can be happy and prosperous without any considerable foreign immigration. I refer my colleagues and the country to the South. the section in which I live and where LXV370 my people have lived for generations. The South has in it but few people of foreign extraction. as the term is defined and understood. and I am reminded here of General Grants views in this connection. stated years ago.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that European immigrants are of poor quality, unassimilable, and disloyal.
Keywords matched
immigration alien laborers

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
⚠️ Yes
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat Cultural threat Security threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
JOHN TILLMAN
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
AR
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
680076408
Paragraph
#0
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