Legitimate strife in business should not be superseded by an enforced concession to the demands of combinations that have the power to destroy, nor should the people to be served lose the benefit of cheapness which usually results from wholesome competition. These aggregations and combinations frequently constitute conspiracies against the interests of the people, and in all their phases they are unnatural and opposed to our American sense of fairness.

Grover Cleveland

Second Inaugural Address of Grover Cleveland

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Topic

Monopoly Business competition Corporate power

Speaker

Grover Cleveland

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Grover Cleveland Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1893 1890s 19th century

Occupation

American President National leader Politician

From

United States

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Citation

Cleveland, Grover. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1893, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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