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136 PILLARS OF HEMLOCK Now Elk State Forest.
137 Roosevelt was more prone TR, Letters, vol. 1, 122; Morris, Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, 382–85; TR, Diaries of Boyhood and Youth (New York, 1928), 247.
138 Qui plantavit curabit “He who has planted will preserve.”
139 I am sorry Morris, Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, 48; WPA Guide to Pennsylvania (1940); World’s Work, June and Nov. 1901; The Forester 7 (1901), passim; Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 1, 128; Michael Frome, The Forest Service (New York, 1971), 16.
140 Descent via Emporium TR, Autobiography, 325; Frome, Forest Service, chap. 1, passim.
141 A town sign Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 31; Frome, Forest Service, 9; Ray Stannard Baker, “What the U.S. Steel Corporation Really Is,” McClure’s, Nov. 1901.
142 To him, conservation Stephen R. Fox, John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation Movement (Boston, 1981), 108–9; TR, “How I Became a Progressive,” Outlook, Oct. 1912. See also TR, Letters, vol. 2, 1421–22 (to the National Irrigation Congress, 1900), and TR, Autobiography, chap. 11. For the equally ominous state of the nation’s fauna in 1901, see Maximilian Foster, “American Game Preserves,” Munsey’s, June 1901, and John S. Wise, “The Awakening Concerning Game,” Review of Reviews, Nov. 1901. Michael J. Lacey’s “The Mysteries of Earth-Making Dissolve: A Study of Washington’s Intellectual Community and the Origins of American Environmentalism in the Late Nineteenth Century” (Ph.D. diss., George Washington University, 1979) shows that the conservation movement was in fact some twelve years old, and coming into full philosophical flower in September 1901. But the flower blushed unseen by all but very few. It remained for TR, as President, to popularize this philosophy and make it government policy.
143 IT WAS NEARLY time Washington Evening Star, 16 Sept. 1901. New York World and Chicago Tribune, 17 Sept. 1901.
144 He felt at home Leopold, Elihu Root, 9, 18; Jessup, Elihu Root, vol. 2, 503. For another example of TR’s willingness to identify himself with Root’s conservative rhetoric, see his remark at the Minnesota State Fair: “It is probably true that the large majority of the fortunes that now exist in this country have been amassed not by injuring our people, but as an incident to the conferring of great benefits upon the community” (TR, Works, vol. 15, 332).
145 More conservative rhetoric New York World and The Washington Post, 17 Sept. 1901; H. Wayne Morgan, William McKinley and His America (Syracuse, 1963), 249.
146 McKinley had chosen For a profile of the American conservative at the turn of the century, see Mowry, Era of Theodore Roosevelt, 38–45. See also James Weinstein, The Corporate Ideal in the Liberal State (Boston, 1969), and Norman Wilensky, “Conservatives in the Progressive Era,” University of Florida Monographs, no. 25 (1965).
147 They were accustomed The official letter-books of Gage, Hay, and Knox, e.g., are replete with acknowledgments of favors received. Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 3, 204; Lewis L. Gould, Reform and Regulation: American Politics, 1900–1916 (New York, 1978), 18.
148 They were prepared Edward C. Kirkland, Dream and Thought in the Business Community, 1860–1900 (Madison, 1956), 121; Gabriel Kolko, The Triumph of Conservatism: A Reinterpretation of American History, 1900–1916 (New York, 1963), 58–59.
149 He tended toward Mowry, Era of Theodore Roosevelt, 45.
150 Years of sweaty See TR’s review of Kidd’s Social Evolution (1894) in TR, Works, vol. 14, 107–28. This volume also contains other literary essays revelatory of TR’s late-nineteenth-century thought: “National Life and Character” and “The Law of Civilization and Decay.” For intellectual analyses of the prepresidential TR, see John M. Blum, “TR: The Years of Decision,” in TR, Letters, vol. 2, 1484–94; Morris, Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, 462–71; and Edmund Morris, “Theodore Roosevelt, President,” American Heritage 32.4 (June–July 1981).