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The Government must open these gates of trade, and open them wide; open them before it is altogether profitable to open them, or altogether reasonable to ask private capital to open them at a venture.
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gutenberg.orgWoodrow Wilson: “The Government must open these gates of trade, and open them wide; open them before it is altogether profitable to open…”
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Wilson insists that the government must proactively facilitate trade development.
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