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The triumph of the mob is just as evil a thing as the triumph of the plutocracy, and to have escaped one danger avails nothing whatever if we succumb to the other.
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Roosevelt warns that both mob rule and plutocracy are threats to democracy, and escaping one does not justify succumbing to the other.
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