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President Roosevelt admires people who do their full duty; he compares the mother of many children, the soldier who fought well, and the man who worked hard. Roosevelt believes that a race that will not fight and “flinch from breeding” will bring about the death of their own race.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-19
President Roosevelt appreciated Bessie Van Vorst’s article entitled “The Woman Who Toils” and compares the women in the article to the “unemployed rich.” Roosevelt believes that these groups threaten the United States with “race suicide” and he advocates traditional values of home and family life.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-18
Color postcard with image of a man holding two crying infants, with a third in a crib and a home in disarray. The caption below reads, “The Much-Married See poor papa with footsteps unsteady, He says “marriage is a failure” already; The kids loudly roar As he walks the floor, And you bet he won’t vote for Teddy!”
1901-1907