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Teddy Roosevelt: “All our industrial and commercial welfare, all our material development of every kind, depends in the last resort upon…”

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All our industrial and commercial welfare, all our material development of every kind, depends in the last resort upon our preserving and increasing the fertility of the soil.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Roosevelt argues that the nation's industrial and commercial welfare relies on preserving soil fertility.

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