William Taft said...

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

I have always regarded this language as fixing the proper measure of protection at the ascertained difference between th...

If I fail to recommend the reduction of excessive duties to this extent, I shall fail in my duty to the consuming public...

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