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Teddy Roosevelt: “It is therefore a high national duty to bring to justice this vilifier of the American people, this man who wantonly and…”

On the recordDecember 14, 1908
It is therefore a high national duty to bring to justice this vilifier of the American people, this man who wantonly and wickedly and without one shadow of justification seeks to blacken the character of reputable private citizens and to convict the Government of his own country in the eyes of the civilized world of wrongdoing of the basest and foulest kind, when he has not one shadow of justification of any sort or description for the charge he has made.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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