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This country is definitely committed to the protective system and any effort to uproot it could not but cause widespread industrial disaster.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “This country is definitely committed to the protective system and any effort to uproot it could not but cause widespread…”
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Roosevelt asserts the importance of the protective tariff system for the nation's economy.
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