Honesty

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1902-09-06

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Speech of President Roosevelt at Bellows Falls, Vermont

President Roosevelt is pleased to see that Bellow Falls is representative of both the city and the country. Roosevelt then summarizes what government is, the honorableness of work, and the qualities of good citizenship.

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Creation Date

1902-09-01

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Speech of President Roosevelt at Loominster, Massachusetts

Theodore Roosevelt praises the values of honesty, courage, and common sense. Roosevelt also states that the secret to decent citizenship is steadily performing the everyday duties of life. He emphasizes the importance of being a good neighbor, husband, and father.

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Creation Date

1902-09-02

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Remarks of President Roosevelt at Lexington, Kentucky

President Roosevelt tells the crowd in Lexington, Kentucky, that the state has a special relationship to American history as a border state both between north and south, as well as east and west. Kentucky has also contributed more than one would expect to “the leadership of the country in peace and in war.” Roosevelt expounds on three necessary qualities of citizenship: honesty, courage, and common sense. He argues that, just as military tactics and arms change but the soldier’s spirit remains constant, so too must good citizenship continue even as laws or the Constitution must adapt.

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Creation Date

1902-09-06

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Speech of the President at the Auditorium, Chattanooga, Tennessee

At the opening session of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen convention, President Roosevelt praises railroad workers as possessing the necessary qualities of soldiers, including obedience, initiative, and the rugged, manly virtues that Roosevelt feels are threatened by modern luxuries. He argues that organized labor is wonderful, but only if it encourages individual improvement while working for the group, and he feels that the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen have historically exemplified this virtue. Roosevelt warns that the prosperity of modern progress also gives rise to new challenges. He insists that, just as certain soldierly qualities remain constant despite changes in arms or military tactics, laws and constitutions may change but the need for good citizens of honesty, courage, and common sense will always be necessary. Having just visited the Chickamauga and Chattanooga battlefields, Roosevelt also praises the unified American spirit shared by men and women across the country, including immigrants.

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Creation Date

1902-09-08

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Remarks of President Roosevelt at the Court House

President Roosevelt gives the crowd gathered at the Chattanooga Court House a few remarks despite being behind schedule. He reminds them that Tennesseans have collectively served sixteen years as president (referring to Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, and Andrew Johnson). Though “there were differences as to Andrew Jackson’s policies,” Roosevelt especially praises “Old Hickory” as a man of character, “rugged honesty,” and “absolute fearlessness.”

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Creation Date

1902-09-08

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Speech of the President at Asheville, North Carolina

President Roosevelt reminds the crowd in Asheville, North Carolina, of the state’s connection to American history. He mentions his recent visits to the battlegrounds at Chickamauga and Chattanooga and says no citizen can visit them without becoming a better American. He discusses his multi-state journey, saying it is a good thing for a president to travel so he can see that sectional and class differences are trivial. He notes how military arms and tactics may change but the necessary spirit of the good soldier remains the same; so too may laws and constitutions change, but Americans must always possess the qualities of good citizens: honesty, courage, and common sense. He concludes by reminding the crowd that all Americans are part of the government.

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Creation Date

1902-09-09

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Remarks of the President at Salisbury, North Carolina

President Roosevelt tells the crowd at Salisbury, North Carolina, that it is good for Americans, especially the president, to travel, for it teaches one that sectional and class differences are trivial while good citizenship is the same everywhere. He praises the industrial growth of North Carolina and Tennessee, saying it will bring about prosperity for Americans in all sections. He adds that good laws can help this progress, but that no law can create prosperity without a hard-working citizenry possessing wisdom, honesty, perseverance, and courage. He concludes by saying he believes in the people of the region.

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Creation Date

1902-09-09

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Remarks of President Roosevelt at Greensboro, North Carolina

President Roosevelt tells the crowd that he has enjoyed his visit to North Carolina and Tennessee, especially in seeing its industrial growth. Referencing the depression of 1893, he says that the sections of the country share in times of prosperity and suffering, that good and bad times “do not stop for state lines.” Roosevelt states that the government cannot make every individual prosper but that it can give the chance to prosper to everyone who possesses honesty, bravery, and common sense. He notes North Carolina’s natural advantages, but says that character is even more important. To conclude, Roosevelt predicts that the region will be one of the world’s most prosperous within the next fifty years and that the people will work hard to achieve this reality.

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Creation Date

1902-09-09

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Address of President Roosevelt at Kokomo, Indiana

President Roosevelt expresses his pleasure at visiting the industrial center in Kokoma, Indiana, and highlights Indiana’s great natural resources. However, he emphasizes that “material prosperity isn’t everything”—that the real resource is the character of the American people. He advocates the creed of optimism and hope, believing that the United States can develop the continent through hard work and ingenuity despite the difficulties and dangers it faces. Above all, he praises the traits of courage, honesty, and common sense. He also expresses his gratitude towards veterans and current members of the United States Army.

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Creation Date

1902-09-23

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Address of President Roosevelt at Tipton, Indiana

President Roosevelt thanks the local chairman, presumably a Democrat, for introducing him, saying that political party is of little importance when Americans are unified in the spirit of fairness. He notes the presence of school children in the crowd as well as veterans of the Union Army in the American Civil War, saying that the veterans’ victorious spirit lived on in the American soldiers who fought in the Philippines. He notes how evolving weapons and tactics have not changed the necessary qualities of the soldier. Benedict Arnold was a gallant and talented soldier who helped win major battles but was missing the important “root of righteousness” that eventually led to his reputation as a traitor. Similarly, laws may change, but the need for patriotic citizens with honesty, courage, and common sense remains the same.

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Creation Date

1902-09-23

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Remarks of President Roosevelt at Athens, Tennessee

President Roosevelt briefly addresses the crowd gathered in Athens, Tennessee, saying he is glad to see East Tennessee improving with growing cities, manufacturing, railroads, and universities like the nearby Grant University (now Tennessee Wesleyan University). However, he is even more pleased to see men and women of character and honesty.

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Creation Date

1902-09-08

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Why girls leave home

A mother sits on a porch with a searchlight trained on her daughter and her boyfriend as they fly overhead in an airplane. Caption: The Maid-in-the-Air (to her Steady) — I think it’s awfully mean of Mamma to keep that searchlight on us wherever we fly!

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Glackens, L. M. (Louis M.), 1866-1933

Creation Date

1910-11-16

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The new Democratic eucalyptus tree purifies a political morass

Grover Cleveland is pictured as a large tree labeled “Eucalyptus Clevelandus” with roots labeled “Honor” and “Honesty,” and branches that spread over swamp land from which rise gaseous ghosts labeled “Stupidity, K. K. K., Bourbonism, Butlerism, Dynamiter, Kellyism, Ward Bossism, [and] Spoils System.” In the background is a large building labeled “Democratic Head-Quarters.” Caption: The eucalyptus tree has recently been introduced into marshy and malarious regions, where it acts as a purifier of the atmosphere, driving away the deadly miasmatic vapors.–Encyclopaedia.

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Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894

Creation Date

1884-08-27

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Those dogs won’t fight – they are dying of starvation

Charles A. Dana, editor of the “Sun,” and Stephen B. Elkins, wearing a plumed hat, attempt to push an emaciated dog labeled “Clerical Slanderer” up steps leading to where Grover Cleveland is sitting in a rocking chair. Another dog labeled “Common Slanderer” is lying on its back, apparently dead. Nearby is an overturned bowl labeled “False Witness.”

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Graetz, F. (Friedrich), approximately 1840-approximately 1913

Creation Date

1884-08-20

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Edison’s fix

Franklin Edson lies on a dirt path labeled “Road to Honest Government,” hanging onto the tails of two hogs going in the opposite direction, one with the face of John Kelly, labeled “Tammany,” and the other labeled “County Dem.” wearing pince-nez labeled “H.O.T.” In the background is a road sign labeled “To Tammany Bossism” and “To County Bossism,” with New York City in the distance. Caption: He had better let them both go.

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Gillam, Bernhard, 1856-1896

Creation Date

1883-01-03

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Let the political army have new drums also!

Ulysses S. Grant is leading his “Grant Boom” band comprised of Samuel J. Tilden, Lucius Q. C. Lamar, Roscoe Conkling, William W. Phelps, David Davis, James D. Cameron, John Sherman, James G. Blaine, John Kelly, Winfield Scott Hancock, William Mahone, and John Logan. Most carry drums that are broken or in disrepair. Across the street, in front of the “Political Armory,” Puck is operating a makeshift stand, issuing “New Drums for Old Drums.” Benjamin F. Butler kicks away his old drum labeled “Butlers Old Policies” and is getting a new drum labeled “Civil Service Reform.” Brooklyn Mayor Seth Low and Grover Cleveland are trying out new drums labeled “Independence” and “Civil Service Reform.” Other new drums are labeled “Tariff Reform, Political Honesty, Anti-Monopoly, Honesty, [and] For the People.” Caption: The U.S. Army is to have new drums. In their day the old drums did good service. Now they must retire and give place to better drums. Phila. Record.

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Gillam, Bernhard, 1856-1896

Creation Date

1883-02-14

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Tweedledee and Tweedledum

A large, possibly conjoined figure labeled “Meat Trust” sits on a building labeled “Packing House.” The more benevolent half, facing left, is offering advice to a man labeled “Farmer,” and the more mean-spirited half, facing right, is telling the same farmer, now with cattle in tow, that he has no option but to accept the price offered for his cattle. Caption: Before. The Meat Trust (to a small farmer) — “My friend, why don’t you raise a few cattle each year? The price of beef is high. You will make good money.” After. The Meat Trust (to same small farmer) — “The price I offer for your cattle is low, is it? Well, you may take it or leave it, my friend. There is nobody else for you to sell to.”

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Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

Creation Date

1913-10-15

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He had a hunch

George Washington, carrying a small, potted cherry tree, turns to flee after reading notices posted on the “United States Bulletin Board,” some of which state, “Delicatessen Trust to be Investigated Next Week,” “Investigation of the Steel Trust Daily Until Further Notice,” “Investigation of Everything & Anybody,” and “Corned Beef Trust to be [In]vestigated Pretty Soo[n].” Also to be investigated are “Child Labor, White Slave, Campaign Fund, [and] Peanut Trust.” Caption: George Washington – This is no place for a man who couldn’t tell a lie!

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