It was just as certain to follow the election of a class who plundered another class, whether the class thus given mastery was the poor who plundered the rich, or the class of the rich who exploited the poor.
Teddy Roosevelt
The Public Record
Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. A member of the Republican Party, he was born on October 27, 1858, in New York. Roosevelt was a prominent leader of the Progressive Movement, advocating for domestic policies that included trust-busting, regulation of corporations, and conservation of natural resources. His administration is noted for significant reforms and the establishment of national parks and forests.
There is such a marvelous diversification of natural features in your landscape, you are thrice fortunate in your material resources.
I doubt if you yourselves fully realize its future, as I have said to you before.
In my judgment, it is absolutely necessary that the nation, for the State cannot possibly do it, should assume a supervisory and regulatory function over the great corporations which practically control the highways of commerce.
The character of the average man and average woman is what in the last resort determines the great ness of the State, the greatness of the nation.
Get that fact clear in your mind, or you will be laying up for yourselves a store of incalculable disappointment in the future.
I con gratulate you still more on the pains you are taking to educate the citizenship of the future.
The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Wallowa Forest Reserve.
By virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress aforesaid, do hereby withdraw from sale, entry or other disposition, the land embraced in the legal subdivision.
Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation.
The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Klamath Forest Reserve.
The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Trinity Forest Reserve.
I believe in the mines; I believe, as you know, in the irrigation works; I believe in your stock ranches, in everything; but the real crop is the crop of children, for if you get that all straight, the other crops will take care of…
I thank you very, very much for coming here, and I am glad to see you.
I want to say what a pleasure it has been to see the way in which the next generation is being started out on its life task here in Colorado.
It is a great pleasure to me to be back in New Mexico and to pass through Clayton.
I believe more in children than I do in irrigation and you know I am all right on irrigation.





