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Albert Beveridge: “It is truly an alarming circumstance if it be in the power of an aspiring corporation and an unknown and obscure…”

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It is truly an alarming circumstance if it be in the power of an aspiring corporation and an unknown and obscure individual thus to elicit opinions compromitting the vital interests of the States that compose the American Union.
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Albert Beveridge
Republican · Indiana

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Beveridge expresses concern about the influence of corporations on state interests.

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