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76 He noted TR, Works, vol. 18, 576–77.
77 “It is important” Ibid., 578.
78 If conservatives The Philadelphia Press termed TR’s inheritance-tax call “the most radical proposition ever made by a President.” Presidential scrapbook (TRP).
79 Those who had Victor Murdock interview, 31 Mar. 1940 (HKB); Stephen E. Lucas, “Theodore Roosevelt’s ‘The Man with the Muckrake’: A Reinterpretation,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 59.4 (1973); Sir Mortimer Durand in British Documents on Foreign Affairs, vol. 12, 28. For TR’s own review of the speech, see TR, Letters, vol. 5, 217–19.
80 Men with muckrakes Mowry and Grenier in Phillips, Treason, 40; Semonche, “Roosevelt’s ‘Muck-Rake Speech’ ”; Baker, American Chronicle, 204. For an extensive study of TR’s relationship with Progressive journalists, see Thaddeus Seymour, Jr., “A Progressive Partnership: Theodore Roosevelt and the Reform Press—Riis, Steffens, Baker, and White” (Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1985).
81 SENATORS TILLMAN AND Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 3, 256–57.
82 A disillusioned Nathaniel Stephenson, Nelson Aldrich, 314.
83 Even Senator Elkins Lambert, Stephen Benton Elkins, 274.
84 “I love a” The Washington Post, 12 May 1906. But see Blum, “Theodore Roosevelt and the Hepburn Act,” 1570–71.
85 ROOSEVELT TRANQUILLY H. G. Wells, Experiment in Autobiography (London, 1934), 648.
86 “He is the” H. G. Wells, The Future in America: A Search after Realities (New York, 1906), 246–53. For more on this interview, see Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, 646–49.
87 Having read Wells, Future in America, 246–47, 250.
88 the progressive impulse TR had apparently expressed to Wells his concern about “the growth of monopolistic combinations” and the need for “very vigorous antitrust legislation” to combat it. Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, 647.
89 Tillman railed See Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 3, 264–71, for an account of the recriminations (vigorously joined in by TR) that followed news of the secret White House/Chandler/Tillman operation.
90 had started something Gould, Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, 164, points out that although the amended bill’s language on court review read vaguely enough to satisfy Senate conservatives, it enabled the Supreme Court to come down sharply, four years later, on the side of an empowered ICC.
91 Railroad rate regulation Lambert, Stephen Benton Elkins, 275–79; Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 3, 272–73.
92 supplied extra details See Young, “Pig That Fell.” TR’s original “first-class man” investigating the meat industry had materialized in the form of two commissioners, Charles P. Neill and James B. Reynolds. See Conditions in the Chicago Stockyards: Message of the President of the United States, 59 Cong., sess. 1, 1906, H. doc. 873.
93 Apprehensive that British Documents on Foreign Affairs, vol. 12, 43. See James Harvey Young, Pure Food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906 (Princeton, N.J., 1989).
94 James W. Wadsworth TR, Letters, vol. 5, 296; Young, “Pig That Fell.”
95 Again, Roosevelt TR, Letters, vol. 5, 296.
96 A pleasedly firm Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 3, 459; Review of Reviews, Aug. 1906. The territories of Arizona and New Mexico were also offered statehood, but declined.
97 That afternoon Washington Evening Star, 30 June 1906.
98 Still, it had TR, Letters, vol. 5, 329.
99 “Society cannot” Qu. in Ray Stannard Baker, “The Railroad Rate: A Study in Commercial Autocracy,” McClure’s, Nov. 1905.
CHAPTER 27: BLOOD THROUGH MARBLE
1 I’m not so Dunne, Mr. Dooley’s Philosophy, 217.
2 EDITH KERMIT ROOSEVELT New York Tribune, 2 July 1906.
3 The President emerged Ibid. Except where otherwise indicated, the following portrait of EKR in midlife is adapted from Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt.
4 To children other Alsop, unpublished autobiography, 4–5 (TRC).
5 (Archie and Quentin) Looker, White House Gang, 43–44.
6 New England reserve EKR was descended from Puritans and French Huguenots. See EKR, American Backlogs: The Story of Gertrude Tyler and Her Family, 1660–1860 (New York, 1928).
7 “If they had” Morris,