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Teddy Roosevelt: It is our interest no less than our duty to treat them fairly.

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It is our interest no less than our duty to treat them fairly.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Roosevelt asserts that it is both a duty and an interest to treat the people of the islands fairly.

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