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Show H WHAT HAS HE DONE? H We have beeu asked, "What has Roosevelt done to entitle him H to recognition ?" The answer is best given in the words of Henry J. Hl : Allen. Hl Roosevelt helped to frame and pass bills for the regulation of H railroad employes hours of labor, and for the national safety ap- H pliance act; he helped to frame and pass the liability act as it af- H I fects and protects laborers ; he helped to frame and pass the law H I creating the department of commerce and industry four more great H acts for the regulation of the evils suffered by laboring men. H 'I And if you want to know what the laboring men of the great H 1 industrial centers think of these acts, just read the returns from H ! Pennsylvania in November. HI He helped to frame and pass the pure food and pure drugs act. H and he had to use his big stick some. And that was some law,, when H it was administered by competent people. The man who made it a 1 real thing in American life, who made it a real thing in every drug H Btore in the land, in every food factory, in every kitchen and every Hj hotel, quit his job about four months ago. and if we can believe him H r and I insist that the character of his service entitles him to credi- H "bility with us he quit his job because he was sick of the policy that j was all the time trying to whitewash millionaires who wantod to H poison foods and drugs. H Roosevelt helped to frame and pass the national meat inspee- H lion bill. H i He opened the door of China to American commerce. H He settled the Pennsylvania coal strike. Surely you remember H that, don't you? My, my, what an act that was! That took cour- H age; it took executive power; it took self-control. He used his big 1 btick there. Mr. Roosevelt settled that strike in Pennsylvania with H such equal justice as between the mine owner and mine worker that H there was no complaint from either side. H j Yon remember the Treaty of Portsmouth? Why was it, when j the Avar between Japan and Russia had reached the point of horror H j where the whole civilized world was sick, that every civilized ruler H turned to Roosevelt as the one man to begin the activities for peace? H j Why? Simply because, in the matter of these weighty settlements, H ! Mr. Roosevelt towered head and shoulders above every other ruler Hj ! on the earth. H k'. Roosevelt settled the Alaska boundary dispute; reduced the H " I interest bearing debt $90,000,000. j j Roosevelt gave hope to every honest reformer in the United Hl States. |