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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