Teddy Roosevelt: “This provision has excited active and powerful hostility, but the…”

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This provision has excited active and powerful hostility, but the success of the law itself depends on the wise and firm enforcement of it.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt acknowledges the opposition to water use regulations but stresses their importance for law success.

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