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The only relation of the tariff to big corporations as a whole is that the tariff makes manufactures profitable, and the tariff remedy proposed would be in effect simply to make manufactures unprofitable.
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Roosevelt explains that tariffs primarily benefit manufacturers, and proposed tariff remedies could harm them.
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