William Taft said...

This imposes a penalty on the domestic labor of cutting and would transfer half the process in the industry of shoemakin...

Pledged to support a policy of moderate protection, I can not approve a measure which violates its principle.

I concur fully in the conclusions which the Secretary of War has reached and in the recommendations which he makes.

This would impose a heavy burden on the administrative branch of the Government, create disastrous uncertainty in commer...