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Address at a Union Religious Service at City Hall Park in Fresno, California

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Jun 19, 1911

The need is urgent for legislation which will prevent the raising of false hopes of speedy cures of serious ailments by misstatements of fact as to worthless mixtures on which the sick will rely while their diseases progress unchecked.

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Aug 16, 1911

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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Aug 14, 1911

I must therefore withhold my approval from this resolution if in fact I do not approve it as a matter of governmental policy.

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Aug 17, 1911

This imposes a penalty on the domestic labor of cutting and would transfer half the process in the industry of shoemaking and glove making to foreign countries.

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