The trouble has been that when they came in the past—they came with all their bristles out; they came on the defensive; they came to see, not what they could accomplish, but what they could prevent.
Address Before the United States Chamber of Commerce
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Very little reflection would lead any one to conclude that the measure would not furnish in any substantial degree the relief sought by the producers of most of the staple commodities which it covers.
One does not pay a compliment to the American farmer who attempts to alarm him by dangers from foreign competition.
We have been vigorously building up a great merchant marine and providing for improvement of marketing in foreign countries by the passage of an export trade law.
Clearly, this is no time for the erection here of high trade barriers.
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