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Teddy Roosevelt: “It is highly desirable that an element of competition should be introduced by the passage of some such law as that which…”

On the recordMay 3, 1906
It is highly desirable that an element of competition should be introduced by the passage of some such law as that which has already passed the House, putting alcohol used in the arts and manufactures upon the free list.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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