Session #71 · 1929–31

Speech #710181452

He said that the thing which he thinks should be done is the thing which is most fair to all the countries who have contributed in the past to the Anrerican population. that he can think of nothing fairer to do than that. He fears that we might offend some foreign country by acting in any other way. He said it would be wrong for us to offend Germany or Britain or France or any of the other countries. and that the thing for us to do is to go back to the time Columbus landed and study as best we can the figures and the statistics of our people since that time and then decide what proportion and percentage of our population came from all of those various nations and to vote accordingly for a basis of immigration. the only thought in mind being that we shall
Keywords matched
immigration

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Germans British French
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
OTIS GLENN
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
IL
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
710181452
Paragraph
#1
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