I am opposed to the promotion of any policy that does not provide for absolute freedom on the part of the wage earners and do not think we should undertake to give power for large holdings of land in the islands against the opposition of the people of the locality.
Calvin Coolidge: “I am opposed to the promotion of any policy that does not provide for absolute freedom on the part of the wage earners…”
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Coolidge opposes policies that restrict the freedom of wage earners and land ownership against local opposition.
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