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Teddy Roosevelt: “I am glad to see on such bodies the names that represent financial interests, but those interests should not have the…”

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I am glad to see on such bodies the names that represent financial interests, but those interests should not have the right-of-way, and in all enterprises and movements in which the social condition of the country is involved, the agricultural country—the open country—should be as well represented as the city.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Roosevelt argues that agricultural interests should be equally represented in social and economic discussions.

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