Its importance to the Nation is by no means limited merely to its material effects upon our business prosperity; and yet with view to these effects alone it would be to the last degree important for us immediately to begin it.
Roosevelt argues that the canal's importance extends beyond economic benefits to the nation's prosperity.
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