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I do not hesitate to say that the iron and wool sections of the bill, as it passed the Senate, were unjust, incongruous and absurd.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “I do not hesitate to say that the iron and wool sections of the bill, as it passed the Senate, were unjust, incongruous…”
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Sherman describes the iron and wool sections of the tariff bill as fundamentally flawed and unjust.
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