William Taft actually said...

I observe that there are a number of gentlemen who think that I cast a wet blanket over the convention yesterday by what I said there.

Remarks to the Ohio Valley Improvement Association

12/08/1909

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I can not sympathize with this element in the slightest degree.

I think it is a wise course for laborers to unite to defend their interests.

There is not the slightest doubt that if labor had remained unorganized, wages would be very much lower.

I had to ask them all to make personal sacrifices in the matter of compensation.