I know him by what he has done.
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Remarks at the New Bowery Mission in New York City
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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 issue is not now whether we ought originally to have begun this investigation, but it is whether, having expended a very large part of the necessary amount to do the full work, we ought to break it off for lack of a comparatively small additional appropriation.
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.
Pledged to support a policy of moderate protection, I can not approve a measure which violates its principle.





