The execution of the McKinley law under President Harrison demonstrated that it would furnish ample revenue to support the government, and it should have remained on the statute book with such slight changes as experience might have shown to be necessary.
Sherman argues that the McKinley law was effective in generating government revenue and should have remained largely unchanged.
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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.
That is all we ask, and what we demand at all hazards.
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