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The backwoods farmer or planter of that day looked upon the merchant with much the same suspicion and hostility now felt by his successor for the banker or the railroad magnate.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “The backwoods farmer or planter of that day looked upon the merchant with much the same suspicion and hostility now felt…”
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Roosevelt discusses the distrust between early farmers and merchants, drawing a parallel to modern financial skepticism.
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