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On the recordAugust 1, 1886
If the existence of the commodity taxed and the profits of its manufacture and sale depend upon disposing of it to the people for something else which it deceitfully imitates, the entire enterprise is a fraud and not an industry.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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