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Select the correct answer.
Which of the following characterizes the structure of the passage as a whole?
A.
a written request
ОВ. a reasoned argument
c. a descriptive essay
D. a personal narrative
from Message Regarding Labor
Legislation (March 25, 1908)
by Theodore Roosevelt
I call your attention to certain measures as to which
think there should be action by the Congress before the
close of the present session. There is ample time for
their consideration. As regards most if not all of the
matters, bills have been introduced into one or the other
of the two Houses, and it is not too much to hope that
action will be taken one way or the other on these bills at
the present session. In my message at the opening of the
present session, and, indeed, in various messages to
previous Congresses, I have repeatedly suggested action
on most of these measures.
Child labor should be prohibited throughout the
Nation. At least a model child-labor bill should be passed
for the District of Columbia. It is unfortunate that in the
one place solely dependent upon Congress for its
legislation there should be no law whatever to protect
children by forbidding or regulating their labor.
I renew my recommendation for the immediate
reenactment of an employers' liability law, drawn to
conform to the recent decision of the Supreme Court.
Within the limits indicated by the court, the law should
be made through and comprehensive, and the
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