Study Guide for pp. 61-69
A. TR as “Trust-Buster” (pp. 61-62)
Northern Securities Company, J. Pierpont Morgan, James J. Hill, E. H. Harriman,
Jupiter, Philander Know, Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890, unions, “. . .send your
man to see my man and they can fix it up.” “That can’t be done.” trust buster,” Justice
Olver Wendell Holmes.
B. The Strenuous Life (pp. 62-63)
Strenuous life, point-to-point walks, Rock Creek Park, foreign diplomats, military
officers, civil servants, “Over under or through, but never around!” Anna Karenina,
Icelandic sagas,
C. Family Man (pp. 63-64)
Theodore, Jr., Archie, Kermit and Quentin; Algonquin, snake, D. C. Public Schools,
segregation, TR’s message to Congress, Princess Alice, Edith Kermit Carow
Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill at Oyster Bay, N.Y.
Notable Quotables
--“It is a dreadful thing to come into the presidency in this way; but it would be far
worse to be morbid about it.”—TR
--“The actions of President Roosevelt in entertaining that _______ will necessitate
our killing a thousand _____ in the South before they learn their place again.” –
Senator “Pitchfork Ben” Tillman
--“The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for – not
by labor agitators, but by the Christian men to whom God in his infinite wisdom has
given the control of the property interests of the country.” –George Baer
--“The boldest man was likely to become timid under his piercing gaze.” –
Description of J. P. Morgan
--“You must remember that Theodore is really a six-year-old boy.” – British
ambassador
--“It is out of the question for our people as whole permanently to rise by treading
down any of their own number. The free public school, the chance for each boy or
girl to get a good elementary education, lies at the foundation of our whole political
situation. . . .It is true for the Negro as for the white man.” –TR to Congress
--“I can govern the country or I can govern Alice. I cannot possibly do both.” --TR
IV. TR and the Square Deal (pp. 64-69)
A. How the Other Half Lived (p. 64)
How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis, Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Sr.,
Children’s Aid Society, newsboys, “The Shame of the Cities,” Lincoln Steffens,
“muckrakers,” Four Hundred, “lives of ignoble ease.”
B. Further Reforms (p. 65)
Elkins Act, John D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil, rebates, “cutthroat competition,”
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, meat-packing industry, Durham’s Pure Beef lard,” Finley
Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley, Pure Food and Drug Act, “stand pat.”
C. Vindication: The Election of 1904 (pp. 65-68)
Stand-patters, “His Accidency,” Senator Mark Hanna, Alton B. Parker, “square deal,
landslide, Eugene V. Debs, “under no circumstances . . . 1908.”
D. Conservation (pp. 68-69)
Conservation, Gifford Pinchot, Joe Cannon, National Reclamation Bill, Inland
Waterways Commission of 1907, White House Conference on Conservation,
Executive Order, national wildlife sanctuaries, “Bully Pulpit.”
E. Family Values (p. 69)
Birthrate, “blended family.”
Notable Quotables:
--“Sometimes they would be overlooked for days, till all but the bones of them had
gone out to the world as Durham’s Pure Leaf Lard.” –Upton Sinclair writing in The
Jungle
--“There was Tiddy, readin’ the book, and, whoop, all iv a sudden, he jumps up an’
flings his sausages outer the winder, yellin’ “I’m p’isoned, I’m p”isoned.” Finley
Peter Dunne writing as Mr. Dooley.
--My action on labor should always be considered with my action as regards capital,
and both are reducible to my favorite formula – a square deal for every man.” –
Theodore Roosevelt
--“I do not want to see this country a country of selfish prosperity where those who
enjoy the material prosperity think only of the selfish gratification of their own
desires, and are content to import from abroad not only their art, not only their
literature, but even their babies.” –TR