Session #68 · 1923–25

Speech #680076480

It is the pressure. the tension. of modern machine industry to which human beings are subjected that accounts for the number of insane. It is the constant. continuous go. go. of your big industrial centers that breaks the human system. Do not believe that in stopping immigration from Italy and Rumania and Russia that you are going to stop insanity. As long as under the present competitive system we use human beings as cogs in a machine we will have our insane asylums occupied. No greater mistake has ever been made than to charge that cost up to immigration. Charge it up where it belongsto the inevitable casualties and cost of modern Industry. competitive system. and the existing economic condition under which we are living. Let me give you a few statistics as a proof of the industry and thrift of the alien.
Keywords matched
immigration

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Romanians Russians
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
FIORELLO LA GUARDIA
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
NY
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
680076480
Paragraph
#2
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