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The main purpose is to secure the revenue from foreigners seeking our market to dispose of their products.
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sherman states that the primary goal of tariffs is to generate revenue from foreign goods.
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The policy of this country ought to be to make everything national as far as possible.
That is all we ask, and what we demand at all hazards.
But some of you may say, all this is very well, but what will you do to save the Union?
I believe that it will give a reasonable fair protection for the great industries of agriculture, manufacture, and commerce, which lie at the basis of the prosperity of this country.
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