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Teddy Roosevelt: “The enormous increase in interstate trade, resulting from the industrial development of the last quarter of a century…”

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The enormous increase in interstate trade, resulting from the industrial development of the last quarter of a century, makes it proper that the Federal Government should, so far as may be necessary to carry into effect its national policy, assume a degree of administrative control of these great corporations.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt argues that the federal government should have administrative control over large corporations due to increased interstate trade.

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