Any plan must, of course, guard the interests of western and southern bankers as carefully as it guards the interests of New York or Chicago bankers; and must be drawn from the standpoints of the farmer and the merchant no less than from the standpoints of the city banker and the country banker.
Roosevelt stresses the need for any banking plan to consider the interests of all regions and sectors, not just major cities.
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