Session #69 · 1925–27

Speech #690224187

Under the Inexorable law of supply and demand overproduction of many agricultural commodities has helped to bring the American farmer to -!rief. This is true of cotton and rice. Though overproduction i.. already causing distress. the Government is being asked to spend enormous sums on new irrigation and reclamation projects. It unwisely gives preference to "skilled farmer" immigrtnts trying to come from Europe. I have helped to prepare and report and hope to help pass at amiendment to the immigration law checking this folly. I would end it ifI could. Tells of thousands of Mexican peons are being brought to grub and break and cultivate semiarid and other western and southwestern lands to raise cotton.
Keywords matched
immigration

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Mexican peons
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
JOHN BOX
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
TX
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
690224187
Paragraph
#0
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