On the recordDecember 6, 1909
The way to better the original and adventitious conditions, so burdensome to the natives and so destructive to their development, has been pointed out.
Source
presidency.ucsb.eduThe way to better the original and adventitious conditions, so burdensome to the natives and so destructive to their development, has been pointed out.
First Annual Message
Share
More from Bill Taft
This language is so sweeping that it might be made to cover almost 150 articles used in agriculture, which would affect many sections of the present tariff, and lead to the most injurious uncertainty.
I can not make myself a party to dealing with the industries of the country in this way.
I earnestly hope that Congress will take immediate action in this regard, as recommended by the Secretary of War.
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…