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Teddy Roosevelt: “And Congress, the National Legislature, has not of recent years put upon the statute books any law as wise, as…”

On the recordMay 26, 1903
And Congress, the National Legislature, has not of recent years put upon the statute books any law as wise, as beneficent as the National irrigation act of a year ago.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks in Helena, Montana

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