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Grover Cleveland: I anticipate that better and more uninterrupted commerce, through the plan suggested, between the great West and foreign…

On the recordJanuary 17, 1897
I anticipate that better and more uninterrupted commerce, through the plan suggested, between the great West and foreign ports, with the increase of national prosperity which must follow in its train, will not long escape American enterprise and activity.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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