Political Quotes

Nothing, however, halts business and interferes with the course of prosperity so much as the threatened revision of the tariff.

Executive order of June 14, 1879, temporarily withdrawing from sale and settlement for Indian uses so much of townships 1 and 2 north, ranges 5 and 6 east, in Arizona, lying south of the Salt River, is hereby amended so as to permanently withdraw from settlement, entry, sale, or other disposition all those tracts lying south of the Salt River in secs. 25, 26, 34, and 36, except the SE. 1/4 of the SE. 1/4 of sec. 34, in township 2 north, range 5 east of the Gila and Salt River meridian, for the use of the Pima and Maricopa Indians, and such other Indians as the Secretary of the Interior may see fit to settle thereon, subject to any existing valid rights of any persons thereto

Certainly we should proceed prudently in dealing with them upon the basis of ascertained facts rather than hastily and without knowledge to make a reduction of the tariff to satisfy a popular desire.

This language is so sweeping that it might be made to cover almost 150 articles used in agriculture, which would affect many sections of the present tariff, and lead to the most injurious uncertainty.