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On the recordMay 3, 1906
This three-quarters of a million represents the profit that the Standard Oil Company obtains at the expense of the railroads; but of course the ultimate result is that it obtains a much larger profit at the expense of the public.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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