Teddy Roosevelt: “Each has its price, and industry in the United States now exacts, and…”

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Each has its price, and industry in the United States now exacts, and has always exacted, a far heavier toll of death than all our wars put together.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt points out that industrial accidents have historically caused more deaths than wars in the U.S.

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Teddy Roosevelt: “Each has its price, and industry in the United States now exacts, and has always exacted, a far heavier toll of death…”