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Teddy Roosevelt: “It is, perhaps, too much to hope that partisanship may be entirely excluded from consideration of the subject, but at…”

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It is, perhaps, too much to hope that partisanship may be entirely excluded from consideration of the subject, but at least it can be made secondary to the business interests of the country--that is, to the interests of our people as a whole.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt expresses hope that business interests can take precedence over partisanship in tariff discussions.

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