Teddy Roosevelt: “The whole question is a business, an economic question; an economic…”

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The whole question is a business, an economic question; an economic question for the Nation, a business question for the individual.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt frames the discussion of water supply and forestry as essential economic concerns for the nation.

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