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By far the greatest problem, the most far-reaching in its stupendous importance, is that problem, or rather that group of problems, which we have grown to speak of as the labor question.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Roosevelt identifies the labor question as a significant and complex issue facing society.

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