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We can not go far wrong when we base our tariffs on the policy of preserving the productive activities which enhance employment and add to our national prosperity.
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Warren G. Harding
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Harding advocates for a tariff policy that supports domestic production and employment to enhance national prosperity.
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We seek to undermine for others no industry by which they subsist; we are obligated to permit the undermining of none of our own which make for employment and maintained activities.
We saw partisan lines utterly obliterated when war imperiled, and our faith in the Republic was riveted anew.
We do not seek a selfish aloofness, and we could not profit by it, were it possible.
Much has been said about the protective policy for ourselves making it impossible for our debtors to discharge their obligations to us.