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These are misleading phrases, for every tariff for revenue imposed on any imported article necessarily protects or favors the same article produced in the United States, which is not subject to the tariff tax.
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Sherman critiques the misleading nature of tariff language, highlighting its protective effects on domestic industries.
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You have all contributed, more or less, in perverting the public mind as to our principles and purposes.
It is not in my blood and these gentlemen cannot put it there.
It was the same old story of injustice and wrong, of might against right.
That is all we ask, and what we demand at all hazards.
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