Roosevelt Among the People: Being an Account of the Fourteen Thousand Mile Journey from Ocean to Ocean of Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-sixth President of the United States. Together Wih the Public Speeches Made by Him During the JourneyL. W. Walter Company, 1910 - 314 pages |
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... carriage and throw- ing him to the ground . He sustained apparently simple bruises and the trip was continued , but at Indianapolis it was found that one of his legs was in such a condition , due to an injury inci- dent to the accident ...
... carriage and throw- ing him to the ground . He sustained apparently simple bruises and the trip was continued , but at Indianapolis it was found that one of his legs was in such a condition , due to an injury inci- dent to the accident ...
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... carriages were taken to the Audi- torium Hotel , the drive being through streets crowded with cheering people . After luncheon the President went to the Uni- versity of Chicago , being met by Dr. William R. Harper and the faculty and ...
... carriages were taken to the Audi- torium Hotel , the drive being through streets crowded with cheering people . After luncheon the President went to the Uni- versity of Chicago , being met by Dr. William R. Harper and the faculty and ...
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... carriages stopped at the Exposition Building , where the President was formally wel- comed on behalf of the City by Mayor Rose . The President said : " Woe will beset this country if we draw lines of distinction between class and class ...
... carriages stopped at the Exposition Building , where the President was formally wel- comed on behalf of the City by Mayor Rose . The President said : " Woe will beset this country if we draw lines of distinction between class and class ...
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... carriage . The arrival in Lincoln was announced by a chorus of factory whistles . At the signal , all the stores in town were closed and remained locked up until after the departure of the train . The 159 ROOSEVELT AMONG THE PEOPLE.
... carriage . The arrival in Lincoln was announced by a chorus of factory whistles . At the signal , all the stores in town were closed and remained locked up until after the departure of the train . The 159 ROOSEVELT AMONG THE PEOPLE.
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... carriage drive . The buildings were elaborately decorated with bunt- ing and flags . A reception committee met the President at the Union Depot . The military es- cort was a large one . The drive ended at the Omaha Club , where a ...
... carriage drive . The buildings were elaborately decorated with bunt- ing and flags . A reception committee met the President at the Union Depot . The military es- cort was a large one . The drive ended at the Omaha Club , where a ...
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Page 37 - It is agreed, however, that none of the immediately foregoing conditions and stipulations in sections numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of this article shall apply to measures which the United States may find it necessary to take for securing by its own forces, the defense of the United States and the maintenance of public order.
Page 43 - We do not guarantee any state against punishment if it misconducts itself, provided that punishment does not take the form of the acquisition of territory by any non-American power.
Page 40 - In other words, the Monroe Doctrine is a declaration that there must be no territorial aggrandizement by any nonAmerican power at the expense of any American power on American soil. It is in no wise intended as hostile to any nation in the Old World.
Page 124 - An act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes, and their locomotives with drivingwheel brakes, and for other purposes...
Page 43 - Berlin, conveyed personally to the President the assurance of the German Emperor that His Majesty's Government had no purpose or intention to make even the smallest acquisition of territory on the South American Continent or the islands adjacent. This voluntary and friendly declaration was afterwards repeated to the Secretary of State, and was received by the President and the people of the United States in the frank and cordial spirit in which it was offered. In the memorandum of the...
Page 124 - In the end an admirable law was passed "to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes and their locomotives with drivingwheel brakes.
Page 175 - Pacific, which in that day was known as Louisiana. This immense region was admittedly the territory of a foreign power, of a European kingdom. None of our people had ever laid claim to a foot of it. Its acquisition could in no sense be treated as rounding out any existing claims. When we acquired it we made evident once for all that consciously and of set purpose we had embarked on a career of expansion, that we had taken our place among those daring and hardy nations who risk much with the hope...
Page 48 - There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build, and keep at a pitch of the highest training, a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.
Page 99 - What we really need in this country is to treat the tariff as a business proposition from the standpoint of the interests of the country as a whole, and not from the standpoint of the temporary needs of any political party. It surely ought not to be necessary to dwell upon the extreme unwisdom, from a business standpoint, from the standpoint of national prosperity, of violent and radical changes amounting to the direct upsetting of tariff policies at intervals...
Page 48 - Speak softly and carry a big stick — you will go far.' If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble; and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.