Teddy Roosevelt: “Combinations in industry are the result of an imperative economic law…”

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Combinations in industry are the result of an imperative economic law which cannot be repealed by political legislation.

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Republican · New York

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

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Teddy Roosevelt: “Combinations in industry are the result of an imperative economic law which cannot be repealed by political legislation.”