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Theodore Roosevelt

CHAPTER XII
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It was a curious instance of how able and astute men sometimes commit blunders because of sheer inability to understand intensity of disinterested motive in others.

I did not care a rap about Mr.Tillman's getting credit for the bill, or having charge of it.

I was delighted to go with him or with any one else just so long as he was traveling in my way--and no longer.
There was another amusing incident in connection with the passage of the bill.

All the wise friends of the effort to secure Governmental control of corporations know that this Government control must be exercised through administrative and not judicial officers if it is to be effective.

Everything possible should be done to minimize the chance of appealing from the decisions of the administrative officer to the courts.


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