This crime in this case was committed by men of education and of large business experience, whose standing in the community was such that they might have been expected to set an example of obedience to law upon the maintenance of which alone in this country the security of their property depends.
Roosevelt points out that the crime in question was committed by educated individuals expected to uphold the law in his 1919 address.
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