Teddy Roosevelt: “Now to speak of the tariff in this sense as “robbery,” thereby giving…”

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Now to speak of the tariff in this sense as “robbery,” thereby giving it a moral relation, is not merely rhetorical; it is on its face false.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt argues against the moral framing of tariffs as 'robbery', asserting it is fundamentally incorrect.

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