Even under such conditions of tariff-making errors might be committed, but they would be merely those errors of disinterested judgment incidental to every kind of public or, for the matter of that, private effort, and the work would not be hampered from the beginning by the need of gratifying private selfishness.
Roosevelt acknowledges that errors may occur in tariff-making, but they should not stem from selfish interests.
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