Teddy Roosevelt: “You cannot put a stop to or reverse the industrial tendencies of the…”

On the recordSeptember 5, 1902

You cannot put a stop to or reverse the industrial tendencies of the age, but you can control and regulate them and see that they do no harm.

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Republican · New York

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Remarks in Wheeling, West Virginia

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Teddy Roosevelt: “You cannot put a stop to or reverse the industrial tendencies of the age, but you can control and regulate them and see…”