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I ventured, in a mild-mannered way, to suggest to him a doubt whether trusts were caused by the tariff, whether they did not exist as to domestic as well as to foreign productions.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “I ventured, in a mild-mannered way, to suggest to him a doubt whether trusts were caused by the tariff, whether they did…”
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Sherman questions the relationship between tariffs and the existence of trusts.
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