Address at the Armory in Portland, Oregon
10/01/1909
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Another clause that calls for comment is in the leather paragraph, which reads as follows: \Leather cut into shoe uppers...
The matter is therefore submitted to the Congress in accordance with the recommendation of the Acting Secretary of State...
This imposes a penalty on the domestic labor of cutting and would transfer half the process in the industry of shoemakin...
The same reasons which impelled me to decline to sign the wool bill control me in this case.