I am constrained, in deference to popular sentiment and with a realizing sense of my duty to the great masses of our people whose welfare is involved, to urge upon your consideration early action on this agreement.
Message to the Congress Directing Attention of Congress to the Reciprocal Tariff Agreement Between the Dominion of Canada...
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It is easy in cases like this to take the course which timidity prompts, and to do nothing, but such a course does not inure to the public weal.
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.
Certainly we should proceed prudently in dealing with them upon the basis of ascertained facts rather than hastily and without knowledge to make a reduction of the tariff to satisfy a popular desire.
This agreement was the consummation of earnest efforts, extending over a period of nearly a year, on the part of both governments to effect a trade arrangement.
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