In the first place, the people of this country should clearly understand that no amount of industrial prosperity, and above all no leadership in international industrial competition, can in any way atone for the sapping of the vitality of those who are usually spoken of as the working classes.
Roosevelt warns that industrial prosperity cannot compensate for the decline in the well-being of the working class.
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