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The maintenance of your Southern water powers is not less important than the prevention of floods, because if they are injured your manufacturing interests will suffer with them.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “The maintenance of your Southern water powers is not less important than the prevention of floods, because if they are…”
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Roosevelt stresses the importance of maintaining Southern water powers alongside flood prevention.
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