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The present limitations have been absurd, excessive, and serve no useful purpose, and often render it necessary that there should be either fraud or close abandonment of the work of getting out the coal.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “The present limitations have been absurd, excessive, and serve no useful purpose, and often render it necessary that…”
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Roosevelt criticizes existing limitations on coal land operations as excessive and counterproductive.
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