History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . dollars. Devotion to a single endeavor is an evi-dent trait in Mr. Langshaw^s character, sofar as commerce is concerned. His connec-tions outside the Dartmouth ManufacturingCorporation have been comparatively number the presidency of the Bristol quainted with the actual effects of tariffmeasures. While admitting that industriesdependent upon skilled labor require pro-tection for their development, he maintainsthat the issue of protection has been exag-gerated and perverted to the demands ofprivileged
History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . dollars. Devotion to a single endeavor is an evi-dent trait in Mr. Langshaw^s character, sofar as commerce is concerned. His connec-tions outside the Dartmouth ManufacturingCorporation have been comparatively number the presidency of the Bristol quainted with the actual effects of tariffmeasures. While admitting that industriesdependent upon skilled labor require pro-tection for their development, he maintainsthat the issue of protection has been exag-gerated and perverted to the demands ofprivileged interests. On the other hand, hebelieves that a moderate tariff is not oppres-sive when domestic production is equal tothe market requirements and when avenuesare left open to manufacturers of limitedcapital. He has, therefore, consistently ad-vocated a moderate reduction in the tariff,asserting that such reduction would meanenhanced prosperity for the industrial andcommercial enterprise of the country. Inpolitics the author of these views is classedas an Independent Dartmouth Manufacturing Corporation Manufacturing Company of New Bedford,manufacturers of plain and fancy cotton andsilk goods, and directorships in the Woon-socket Machine Press Company, the Massa-chusetts Trust Company, and the Massachu-setts Employees Insurance Association. Mr. Langshaws fondness for the investi-gation of economic problems has led himinto protracted studies, and they have beenfruitful. A subject that he has treated witha skill born of experience and patient re-search is that perennial bone of politicalcontention, the tariff. He embodied hisopinions, original and compellingly ex-pressed, in two brochures. One was used asa brief before the committee on ways andmeans of the United States House of Rep-resentatives in 1913. The cotton schedulewas ably received and, in fact, taken alto-gether, Mr. Langshaws writings are a wellargued case for the conclusions he hasreached. He argues not on
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