If I fail to guard as far as I can the industries of the country to the extent of giving them the benefit of a living measure of protection, and business disaster ensues, I shall not be discharging my duty.
Message to the House of Representatives Returning Without Approval an Act Revising the Schedule of Duties on Wool and Wool...
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The statute can be easily amended to include the evil I have described.
With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to the ratification of the treaty, I transmit herewith an authenticated copy of a treaty signed by the plenipotentiaries of the United States and Great Britain on August 3, 1911.
Nothing, however, halts business and interferes with the course of prosperity so much as the threatened revision of the tariff.
I am in full sympathy with the concern of reasonable and patriotic men that the valuable resources of Alaska should not be turned over to be exploited for the profit of greedy, absorbing, and monopolistic corporations or syndicates.
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