Yet I am told that the people of this country must bear this burden. if it is a burden. until the Tariff Board reports. and they must bear it because we do not know what duties ought to be laid upon these articles in order to protect American industries. That is not an answer which will be accepted by the people of the United States who are not directly interested in these industries. When it is recognized that we have this knowledge. that we have all the hearings before the Ways and Means Committee of 1909. that we have 1.000 pages of hearings before the Finance Committee of the Senate in 1912. that we have the longcontinued examinations and Investigations of the Commissioner of Corporations. of the Bureau of the Census. of the Immigration Commission. of special agents who have gone up and down Europe in order to ascertain precisely what we want to know. the plea for delay will be overruled by the great body of the voters.
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