William Taft actually said...

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.

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Message to the House of Representatives Returning Without Approval an Act Revising the Schedule of Duties on Wool and Wool...

08/16/1911

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