His intimate study of France made him look with equanimity on the great fortunes of t6day. for he compared them to those of the great cardinals of France. whose fortunes then. he said. were proportionately as great. *History also freed him from fear of evil consequences of some radical legislation. He introduced a bill and argued strongly for a progressive federal inheritance tax. The welfare of the laboring classes was to him. as his speeches show. the desideratum in a country that was to be blessed with prosperity and happiness. It was from their point of view that he approached the tariff. and for that reason that he argued in favor of the exclusion of Chinese coolies and foreign pauper labor. Other matters that attracted his attention were Cuban reciprocity. the Philippine friar lands. Indian affairs. and taxation in the District of Columbia.
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