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Let us try the experiment of a tariff framed, not by a party upon a party platform, but by the selected representatives of the commercial, industrial, farming and laboring classes.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “Let us try the experiment of a tariff framed, not by a party upon a party platform, but by the selected representatives…”
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Sherman proposes a new approach to tariff creation involving representatives from various sectors.
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