Teddy Roosevelt: “Both kinds of federation, capitalistic and labor, can do much good…”

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Both kinds of federation, capitalistic and labor, can do much good, and as a necessary corollary they can both do evil.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt acknowledges that both capitalistic and labor federations can have positive and negative impacts.

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Teddy Roosevelt: “Both kinds of federation, capitalistic and labor, can do much good, and as a necessary corollary they can both do evil.”