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Our experience in the past has shown that sweeping revisions of the tariff are apt to produce conditions closely approaching panic in the business world.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt warns that drastic tariff changes can lead to panic in the business sector based on historical experience.

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