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Teddy Roosevelt: “Not of recent years has any more important law been put upon the statute books of the Federal Government than the law a…”

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Not of recent years has any more important law been put upon the statute books of the Federal Government than the law a year ago providing for the first time that the National Government should interest itself in aiding and building up a system of irrigated agriculture in the Rocky Mountains and plains States.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt highlights the significance of a recent law aimed at promoting irrigated agriculture in the western United States.

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