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Teddy Roosevelt: “It works grim hardship to the ordinary wage-worker and his family to have the effect of such an accident fall solely…”

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It works grim hardship to the ordinary wage-worker and his family to have the effect of such an accident fall solely upon him; and, on the other hand, there are whole classes of attorneys who exist only by inciting men who may or may not have been wronged to undertake suits for negligence.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt highlights the unfair burden of accident consequences on wage-workers and the exploitation by attorneys.

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