This is the doctrine of the Square Deal. It contains the germ of
industrial liberty. Its partisans are the many, its opponents are the
few. I am firm in the faith that the great majority of our people are
Square Dealers.
CHAPTER VI
BUSINESS
The business of the people of the United States, performed by the
Government of the United States, is a vast and a most important one; it
is the house-keeping of the American Nation. As a business proposition
it does not attract anything like the attention that it ought.
Unfortunately we have come into the habit of considering the Government
of the United States as a political organization rather than as a
business organization.
Now this question, which the Governors of the States and the
representatives of great interests were called to Washington to consider
in 1908, is fundamentally a business question, and it is along business
lines that it must be considered and solved, if the problem is to be
solved at all. Manufacturers are dealing with the necessity for
producing a definite output as a result of definite expenditure and
definite effort. The Government of the United States is doing exactly
the same thing.
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