Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-six President of the United States: A Typical AmericanE. R. Du Mont, 1901 - 413 pages |
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Page 73
... corruption in the halls of the assembly at Albany , and that even the public conscience of his own city - the aristocratic portions as well as those less preten- tious - was not of the sterling quality that it should be . He knew there ...
... corruption in the halls of the assembly at Albany , and that even the public conscience of his own city - the aristocratic portions as well as those less preten- tious - was not of the sterling quality that it should be . He knew there ...
Page 175
... corrupt and base ; and the spoils system , the application in political life of the degrading doctrine that to the victor belong the spoils , produces corruption and degradation . The man who is in politics for the offices might just as ...
... corrupt and base ; and the spoils system , the application in political life of the degrading doctrine that to the victor belong the spoils , produces corruption and degradation . The man who is in politics for the offices might just as ...
Page 301
... corruption fund , been able to escape anything like just taxation , that an effort to force them to pay their share for the protection afforded them by the Government seemed to them like an encroachment on their rights . To attempt the ...
... corruption fund , been able to escape anything like just taxation , that an effort to force them to pay their share for the protection afforded them by the Government seemed to them like an encroachment on their rights . To attempt the ...
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS | 5 |
A TYPICAL AMERICAN introduction by OPIE READ | 25 |
THEODORE ROOSEVELT | 33 |
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