Show ROOSEVELTS WORDS TO YOUNG MEN I you could speak commandingly to the young men of our city I asked him one day what would you say to them Id order them to work said he Id try to develop and work out an ideal of mine the theory of the duty of the leisure leis-ure class to the community I have tried to do it by example and it is what I have preached first and foremost to be American Heart and soul and to go in with any person heedless anything but that persons qualifications For my self Id work as quick beside Pat Dugan as with the last descendant of a patroon it literally makes no difference to me so long as the work is good and the man ard is earnest One other thing Id like to teach the young man of wealth that he who has not got wealth owes his first duty to his family but he who has means owes his first duty frst to the state I is ignoble to try to heap money on money I woyld preach the doctrine of work to all and to the men of wealth the doctrine of unremun e aSvc worltFrom a character sketch of Theodore Roosevelt Iftr Julian Ralph in the August Review of Reviews |