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As much as possible should be done to distribute the immigrants upon the land and keep them away from the congested tenement-house districts of the great cities.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “As much as possible should be done to distribute the immigrants upon the land and keep them away from the congested…”
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Roosevelt stresses the importance of distributing immigrants to rural areas rather than urban tenements.
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