On the other hand, when private ownership entails grave abuses, and where the work is of a kind that can be performed with efficiency by the State or municipality acting in its collective capacity, no theory or tradition should interfere with our making the change.
Roosevelt advocates for flexibility in governance, allowing for state intervention when private ownership leads to significant abuses.
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