To further widen the breach now existing between capital and labor is dangerous. and it becomes the duty of every member to patriotically prevent it. Sir. I would once for all take the vexed question of the tariff out of the domain of politics. through the establishment of a nonpartisan tariff commission clothed with the powers to so modify duties when they were used to build up trusts. syndicates. and combinations formed to oppress the consumer and extort the fruits of his toil. and through a conservative conception of the national necessities and an elastic modification of rigid rules. be at all times equipped to protect American interests. dignify American labor by so controlling immigration as to protect the American toilers as well as the American manufacturer. that one part of the great social and industrial forces shall act harmoniously with the other. till the voices rising from our citizens shall be tuned to singing and not to cursing. One more commission. a commission of arbitration. clothed with amplitude of powers to adjust and settle all labor disputes. Sir. the great nations of the earth have learned that war is costly and mutually destructive. and when differences arise in the great family of nations they settle their disputes not by a war. but more equitably and happily through the medium of arbitration.
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