Teddy Roosevelt: “It is eminently right that the Nation should fix the terms upon which…”

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It is eminently right that the Nation should fix the terms upon which the great fortunes are inherited.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt asserts that it is right for the nation to determine how great fortunes are inherited.

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Teddy Roosevelt: “It is eminently right that the Nation should fix the terms upon which the great fortunes are inherited.”