If either the business world or the world of labor loses its head, then it has lost something which cannot be made good by any governmental effort.
On the recordJanuary 29, 1905
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Remarks at the Forty-Second Anniversary Banquet of the Union League Club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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