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Theodore Roosevelt

CHAPTER XIII
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Certain of the representatives of labor in their turn condemned me because I included Messrs.

Moyer and Haywood as undesirable citizens together with Mr.Harrison.I am as profoundly indifferent to the condemnation in one case as in the other.

I challenge as a right the support of all good Americans, whether wage-workers or capitalists, whatever their occupation or creed, or in whatever portion of the country they live, when I condemn both the types of bad citizenship which I have held up to reprobation.

It seems to be a mark of utter insincerity to fail thus to condemn both; and to apologize for either robs the man thus apologizing of all right to condemn any wrongdoing in any man, rich or poor, in public or in private life.
You say you ask for a "square deal" for Messrs.

Moyer and Haywood.


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