The need is urgent for legislation which will prevent the raising of false hopes of speedy cures of serious ailments by misstatements of fact as to worthless mixtures on which the sick will rely while their diseases progress unchecked.
Message to the Congress Concerning the Pure Food and Drugs Act
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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.
It is hereby ordered that the following-described land, to wit, the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter and the west half of the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section 26, township 18 north of range 13 west of the Gila and Salt River meridian, be, and the same is hereby, reserved from entry, sale, settlement, or other disposition, for use of the Walapai Indians, subject to any valid, existing right of any person to the land described herein.
I have always regarded this language as fixing the proper measure of protection at the ascertained difference between the cost of production at home and that abroad.
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