The platform upon which he was elected was "That an adequate protection to American industry is indispensable to the prosperity of this country; and that an abandonment of the policy at this period would be attended with consequences ruinous to the best interest of the nation.
Sherman references the Republican party's platform advocating for protection of American industry as vital for national prosperity.
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The legality of this legislature was denied by the great majority of the people who never acquiesced in or obeyed its enactments, thus taking the only course open to them to secure a lawful government.
This power in the hands of a few is at this moment the disturbing element in many of our great industries.
I have participated in framing many tariff bills, but have never succeeded in securing one that I entirely approved.
You can arrest this movement, and you alone can do it.
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