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Teddy Roosevelt: “Our effort should be not so much to prevent consolidation as such, but so to supervise and control it as to see that it…”

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Our effort should be not so much to prevent consolidation as such, but so to supervise and control it as to see that it results in no harm to the people.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

He suggests that the goal should be to manage corporate consolidation to protect the public rather than to prevent it outright.

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