Theodore Roosevelt
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Excerpt from Theodore Roosevelt: By One Who Voted for Him Three Times Words fail us, for we cannot hope to picture fully the many sides of this national world hero. Yet we can mention a few of his deeds and qualities for the benefit of his myriads of mourning friends and the consolation of his family. Theodore Roosevelt, born rich, in New York City, and educated in Harvard, and on a Dakota ranch, was and is a mighty and fearless leader of men, one of our greatest Presidents, a near-martyr by assassination, in fact. I am glad I emphasized the value of the ballot (for many will not go a block to vote), when I went 750 miles and back from Ann Arbor, Mich., where I studied law, to Vermillion, S. D., 1500 miles in all, when I cast my first ballot after reaching voting age for the martyred McKinley and Roosevelt. I thought then, and still believe, that both Republican leaders were more fully pledged than the Democrats to the idea that big business is not necessarily corrupt, and when rightly run big business is highly helpful to the public or the masses. I believe the men controlling the corporations, on the average, have made good and fully justified the belief of Roosevelt and his supporters. I warmly admired Roosevelt´s real courage in daring to attack corrupt big business, as shown in unfair railroad rebates, etc. He exalted the Presidency by using it as a pulpit to preach against predatory wealth, railroad rebates, etc. We sometimes thought he was bluffing because he did not change and execute laws fast enough to suit us, not realizing the immense difficulties he fought. I sometimes wondered if his study of the national transportation problem did not naturally lead to a study of world transportation and eventuate in his greatest everlasting monument, the Panama Canal, which was due to his energy then, and desirable direct action methods, otherwise it might have been delayed many years. By fighting predatory wealth Roosevelt was the best protector of honest wealth in America, and the greatest fighter against destructive Bolshevikism in the world. For sheer moral courage the revered President Roosevelt´s greatest heroism was shown most conspicuously when he obeyed the Bible command, "Come out from among them and be ye separate." when he left the party and friends who had honored him so much in the past and led the Progressives when I voted for him last. He believed in the righteousness of this cause so much that he dared help start a new party which cast vastly the largest vote any new party ever won before in America. I believe Theodore Roosevelt´s fame is the kind that will grow with time. Wise progress is real conservation. I voted for Roosevelt three times, McKinley once, and Taft once, and yet I admire President Wilson much for his mastery of English and ideas, and especially for his League of Nations and fourteen Peace Point ideas as understood at the present time, January 8th, 1919. They mean progress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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