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It must be enforced, unless we are to banish individualism from all business and reduce it to one common system of regulation or control of prices like that which now prevails with respect to public utilities, and which when applied to all business would be a long step toward State socialism.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Taft warns against excessive regulation that could lead to a loss of individualism in business.

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