Copyright, 1916, BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY Copyright, 1914, BY THE WHEELER SYNDICATE, INC. Copyright, 1915, BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT Copyright, 1915 and 1916, BY THE METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE COMPANY 207553 Printed in the United States of Ameston DEDICATION This book is dedicated to the memory of Julia Ward Howe because in the vital matters fundamentally affecting the life of the Republic, she was as good a citizen of the Republic as Washington and Lincoln themselves. She was in the highest sense a good wife and a good mother; and therefore she fulfilled the primary law of our being. She brought up with devoted care and wisdom her sons and her daughters. At the same time she fulfilled her full duty to the commonwealth from the public standpoint. She preached righteousness and she practised righteousness. She sought the peace that comes as the handmaiden of well doing. She preached that stern and lofty courage of soul which shrinks neither from war nor from any other form of suffering and hardship and danger if it is only thereby that justice can be served. She embodied that trait more essential than any other in the make-up of the men and women of this Republic-the valor of righteousness. |