William Taft actually said...

This imposes a penalty on the domestic labor of cutting and would transfer half the process in the industry of shoemaking and glove making to foreign countries.

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Message to the House of Representatives Returning Without Approval an Act Removing All Duties on Articles in the Metal,...

08/17/1911

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