State Papers and Speeches on the Tariff: With an Introduction by F.W. TaussigHarvard University, 1892 - 385 páginas |
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Página 305 - Congress. And who will go home and say that he rejected all the benefits of this bill, because molasses has been subjected to the enormous additional duty of five cents per gallon ? I call, therefore, upon the friends of the American policy to yield somewhat of their own peculiar wishes, and not reject the practicable in the idle pursuit after the unattainable.
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