We are now at peace with the world, and it is my fervent prayer that if differences arise between us and other powers they may be settled by peaceful arbitration and that hereafter we may be spared the horrors of war.
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Now I have the satisfaction to announce that the Congress just closed has reduced taxation in the sum of $41,000,000.
May it end without further bloodshed, and there be ushered in the reign of peace to be made permanent by a government of liberty under law!
Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested, do hereby declare and make known that the Executive Orders dated December 27, 1875, and December 29, 1891, are so far modified as to…
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