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Teddy Roosevelt: “It was just as certain to follow the election of a class who plundered another class, whether the class thus given…”

On the recordMay 7, 1905
It was just as certain to follow the election of a class who plundered another class, whether the class thus given mastery was the poor who plundered the rich, or the class of the rich who exploited the poor.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Chamber of Commerce Banquet in Denver, Colorado

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