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Finally, all persons should be excluded who are below a certain standard of economic fitness to enter our industrial field as competitors with American labor.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt insists that only economically fit individuals should be allowed to compete in the American labor market.

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