Teddy Roosevelt: “I am convinced that the “wages fund” would be larger if there was no…”

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I am convinced that the “wages fund” would be larger if there was no fictitious capital upon which dividends had to be paid.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt argues that eliminating fictitious capital would increase the available wages fund.

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