Theodore Roosevelt, by Paul Raymond Audibert, Paris.

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Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-Sixth President of the United States, (1901-1909). Born New York, October 27, 1858.
(Mr Roosevelt was apparently still living at the time of this compilation of engravings by Mr. Audibert. Roosevelt died in 1919.) The following is quoted from the coverleaf of the engraving:

"Theodore Roosevelt seemed, like Washington and Lincoln and Grant, to have been specially called for the occasion from the ranks of his fellow men to correct the abuses of the money power that had grown up as tares in the midst of our great field of national prosperity, and to keep the Ship of State, that, Washington had launched and Lincoln saved from wreckage on the rocks and shoals of secession, on an even keel, and free it from its barnacles and the new dangers that beset it. He was gifted in a remarkable degree with a quick perception of what the country needed, and a philosophical insight into the good and evil tendencies of our times. He did his work so well, and left the Presidental chair with so bright and clean a record, that he well deserves to be commemorated in many ways, to show our national appreciation of him."***

"The American people justly admire his prowess, his physical, mental, and moral strength and courage, his boldness in defense of his own convictions of right and wrong--of what he knows, or believes to be right, and in censure and condemnation of what he knows, or believes to be wrong. He may indeed well be regarded as America's greatest apostle of Justice in public life. The people admire him, too, for his versatility and remarkable capacity for business or pleasure, politcal work or play, sports or literature, oratory or statesmanship.***

"His overshadowing political position and fame have of course eclipsed Theodore Roosevelt's literary reputation, but his contributions to American periodical literature, and his ability as an author of graphic and forceful books, that have achieved a wide popularity, should not be overlooked in reviewing his phenominal career."***

"The work of Theodore Roosevelt as President must not be judged merely by the laws that he caused to be enacted, and the other tangible evidences of what he accomplished, for these represent little of his achievements, but by the intangible moral forces that he set in motion to broaden and better the conditions of American life by removing obstructions to the welfare of the people as a whole, and by the development of good government. He awoke the public conscience where it had been dormant or sleeping, and arrested, or at least curbed, the evil tendencies of the age, and so prevented the wrong-doers in power, and those they controlled, from continuing to abuse that power, and going from bad to worse in their lawless disregard of the rights of others."

"Consequently what he averted is as much to be considered as what he cured. He inaugurated, in the administration of the Federal government, an era of moral reform and reconstuction, a silent revolution."--HENRY CLEWS, from an address at the Metropolitan Temple, New York, May 27, 1909. Effective published copyright, ©Mickey Cox 2002, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.