After the experience of nearly a century on the absorbing question of the best mode of levying duties on imports, the divergence of opinion is as wide and as pronounced as when the subject first engaged the attention of the Federal Government.
Blaine reflects on the persistent divergence of opinions regarding import duties over nearly a century.
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