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Combinations in industry are the result of an imperative economic law which cannot be repealed by political legislation.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt states that industrial combinations are an unavoidable outcome of economic laws that cannot be ignored by legislation.

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