There are some details of the McKinley tariff bill that may be subject to this objection, but on the whole it is the fairest and best tariff, not only for revenue, for the protection, that has had a place on our statute book.
Sherman defends the McKinley tariff bill as the best balance of revenue and protection for American industries.
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Our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country" has been the watchword and creed of my public life.
During forty years of public life, though many able men have aspired to the office I hold, the people of Ohio, through their general assembly, have preferred me to represent them.
Proud of Ohio, of its history and people, willing at all times to sound its praise in the sisterhood of states, yet, according to my convictions, the United States is entitled to my allegiance, and all parts of it should receive equal care…
It was settled by this war that we have a country limited in its powers by the constitution of the United States fairly construed.
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