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I believed in a policy that would protect our own laborers from undue competition with foreign labor, and would increase and develop our home industries.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “I believed in a policy that would protect our own laborers from undue competition with foreign labor, and would increase…”
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Sherman expresses his belief in protecting domestic labor from foreign competition to foster home industries.
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