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151 In a fundamental TR, qu. in Blum, “TR: The Years of Decision” in TR, Letters, vol. 2, 1487; TR, Works, vol. 15, 109–10.
152 The United States Terence Powderley, U.S. commissioner of immigration, in Collier’s, 14 Dec. 1901. For a selection of relevant social and economic statistics, see Gould, Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, 30–39.
153 Somehow he must TR, Letters, vol. 2, 1487; vol. 3, 105.
154 “a bully pulpit” TR, qu. by Lyman Abbott in “A Review of President Roosevelt’s Administration: IV,” Outlook, 27 Feb. 1909.
155 The fine white Edward W. Bok, in The Americanization of Edward Bok (New York, 1922), describes in detail his relationship with TR. See also Salme H. Steinberg, Reformer in the Marketplace: Edward W. Bok and The Ladies’ Home Journal (Bloomington, Ind., 1980), and Frank Luther Mott, A History of American Magazines (Cambridge, Mass., 1957), vol. 4, 539, 547, for Bok as editor, and Wagenknecht, Seven Worlds, 69–72, 75–76, for TR’s views on the social usefulness of literature.
156 Girls softly pelted Chicago Tribune, 17 Sept. 1901.
157 Thickening crowds New York World, New York Herald, and Buffalo Express, 17 Sept. 1901.
158 Governor William Stone Review of Reviews, Sept. 1901; Atlantic Monthly, Oct. 1901; J. Hampton Moore, Roosevelt and the Old Guard (Philadelphia, 1925), 195; TR, Letters, vol. 3, 136.
159 A messenger ran Kohlsaat, From McKinley, 105; New York Evening Post and New York Evening World, 16 Sept. 1901; Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 21 Sept. 1901. Frederick Holls met TR the next day, and wrote Albert Shaw: “He is highly gratified at the Wall Street boom and Kohlsaat has persuaded him [sic] to agree and keep Gage on till 1905. That is fixed” (17 [AS]).
160 Roosevelt was relieved Kohlsaat, From McKinley, 105.
161 The tolling of Harrisburg Patriot and Chicago Tribune, 17 Sept. 1901; Kohlsaat, From McKinley, 102–4.
162 Ahead, in the New York Evening World, 17 Sept. 1901.
163 THE SUN WAS Buffalo Express, and Clarke in New York Herald, 17 Sept. 1901.
164 Though such families Mowry, Era of Theodore Roosevelt, 12, 18–19; Review of Reviews, Sept. 1901; Fred A. Shannon, “The Status of the Midwestern Farmer in 1900,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 37.3 (Dec. 1950).
165 Technological progress Shannon, “Status.”
166 Roosevelt could see Chicago Tribune, 17 Sept. 1901; Walter Wellman in McClure’s, Sept. 1901; Shannon, “Status”; Mowry, Era of Theodore Roosevelt, 13. Peter J. Hill, “Relative Skill and Income Levels of Native and Foreign-Born Workers in the U.S.,” Explorations in Economic History 12.1 (1975), shows that the general impression in 1901 of the inferiority of immigrant labor was fallacious.
167 Not surprisingly John Higham, Strangers in the Land (New Brunswick, N.J., 1955), 137–40; White editorial, qu. in Kenneth S. Davis, “The Sage of Emporia,” American Heritage 30.6 (Oct.–Nov. 1979).
168 Roosevelt was not See Blum, “TR: The Years of Decision,” in TR, Letters, vol. 2, 1488, and TR, “True Americanism,” Works, vol. 15, 15–31. Thomas G. Dyer, Theodore Roosevelt and the Idea of Race (Baton Rouge, 1980), is the latest attempt to interpret TR’s racial thought in the light of modern sensibilities, mentioning Booker T. Washington only twice.
169 One of his favorite Nancy Schoenberg, “Officer Otto Raphael: A Jewish Friend of Theodore Roosevelt,” American Jewish Archives 39.1 (1987); TR, “Ethnology of the Police,” Munsey’s, June 1897; TR, Letters, vol. 3, 86; Higham, Strangers, 105–12, 149. The League was the pet project of TR’s best friend, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. See Barbara Miller Solomon, “The Intellectual Background of the Immigration Restriction Movement in New England,” New England Quarterly 25 (1952).
170 Several thousand Chicago Tribune and New York World, 17 Sept. 1901.
171 THE CONSISTENT FEATURES The image of the fault line is borrowed from Mowry, Era of Theodore Roosevelt. See ibid., 1–105, for an overall survey of the American landscape (material, intellectual,