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Teddy Roosevelt: “The union of land and water under the national law has been recognized, and so has the fundamental proposition which…”

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The union of land and water under the national law has been recognized, and so has the fundamental proposition which necessarily underlies the prosperity of all communities in which irrigated agriculture is the chief industry, namely, that the water belongs to the people and can not be made a monopoly.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt asserts the principle that water should belong to the people and not be monopolized.

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