Woodman, spare that tree, touch not a single bough. Funds would be scarce if we should "run amuck" -- just now ' President Theodore Roosevelt stopping Philander Chase Knox from cutting down a tree labelled "The Trusts" with an ax labelled "Anti-Trust Laws". A chip of wood labelled "Merger Decision" lies on the ground at the base of the tree.

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Woodman, spare that tree, touch not a single bough. Funds would be scarce if we should "run amuck" -- just now ' President Theodore Roosevelt stopping Philander Chase Knox from cutting down a tree labelled "The Trusts" with an ax labelled "Anti-Trust Laws". A chip of wood labelled "Merger Decision" lies on the ground at the base of the tree.

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