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To uproot and destroy that system would be to ensure the prostration of business, the closing of factories, the impoverishment of the farmer, the ruin of the capitalist, and the starvation of the wage-worker.
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Roosevelt warns that dismantling the protective tariff system would lead to widespread economic devastation.
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