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“We must make a departure. Instead of laying on the burdens of taxation upon the necessaries of life, instead of destroying our foreign commerce, we should encourage it as we would encourage our home commerce. We should remove every unnecessary burden.”
-Source: Democratic Congressman Roger Q. Mills, Congressional Record, 1888
“We are uncompromisingly in favor of the American system of protection; we protest against its destruction as proposed by the President and his party. They serve the interests of Europe; we will support the interests of America.”
-Source: Republican Party Platform, 1888