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John Sherman: “The business men must carry out these, and so I say, as I said in Cincinnati, that if business men would carry their…”

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The business men must carry out these, and so I say, as I said in Cincinnati, that if business men would carry their honest methods into government, then the scale and grade of our politics would rise higher and higher.
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John Sherman
Ohio

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Sherman calls for business ethics to be applied in government to improve politics.

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