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Teddy Roosevelt: “The lands reclaimed by them should be reserved by the Government for actual settlers, and the cost of construction…”

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The lands reclaimed by them should be reserved by the Government for actual settlers, and the cost of construction should so far as possible be repaid by the land reclaimed.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Roosevelt argues that reclaimed lands should be reserved for actual settlers.

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