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Teddy Roosevelt: “But the extreme reactionaries, the persons who blind themselves to the wrongs now and then committed by the courts on…”

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But the extreme reactionaries, the persons who blind themselves to the wrongs now and then committed by the courts on laboring men, should also think seriously as to what such a movement as this portends.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt cautions reactionaries to consider the implications of movements that challenge the courts.

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