Pledged to support a policy of moderate protection, I can not approve a measure which violates its principle.
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Message to the House of Representatives Returning Without Approval an Act Reducing the Duties on Cotton Manufactures,...
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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.
Now that they can be studied and understood—all the business men who touch the decision in any way will conduct their business hereafter according to the law.
There may be a change of persons, but the government of the United States is in the people of the United States and there are a good many of the people of the United States in Chicago.
The bill is so carelessly drawn that it would inevitably lead to the greatest uncertainty as to what articles are or are not covered by its various provisions.





