03390cam a22003493u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000060011910000360012524500230016126400510018430000470023533600260028233700260030833800360033450000310037050503870040150801850078852018040097353400630277765300200284065300580286085600600291885600430297899900190302177590UtSlPG20260610134810.0mcr n260607r20251909utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a09027569  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aH1 aRoosevelt, Theodore,d1858-191910aOutlook editorials 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-12-310 aWhy I believe in the kind of American journalism for which the Outlook stands -- A judicial experience -- A scientific expedition -- Where we cannot work with socialists -- Where we can work with socialists -- Quack cure-alls for the body politic -- The Japanese question -- Tolstoy -- A Southerner's view of the South -- The thraldom of names -- Give me neither poverty nor riches.  aProduced by Donald Cummings and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries).  a"Outlook editorials by Theodore Roosevelt" by Theodore Roosevelt is a collection of political editorials written in the early 20th century. It is a work of public affairs and social commentary that argues for industrial democracy grounded in moral purpose, practical reform, and honest journalism. The book’s likely topic is Roosevelt’s program for balancing individual initiative with public oversight to curb abuses of wealth, protect workers, and strengthen national character at home and abroad.

The pieces range widely but share a steady call for truth, courage, and common sense. Roosevelt praises fair, responsible journalism and rejects both yellow sensationalism and refined slander; recounts his fight for a tenement cigar‑making ban to show why judges need social understanding; and outlines his African trip as a strictly scientific, private expedition. He attacks “advanced” socialism (free love, equal pay without regard to service, hostility to religion and property) while welcoming cooperation with ethical and practical reformers on child‑labor limits, safer workplaces, employer liability, and compensation laws. He warns against political panaceas, urges moral renewal through family duty and character, and advocates national regulation of great corporations alongside condemnation of violence and demagoguery. On immigration, he supports a courteous, mutual limit on mass settlement with Japan and insists a strong navy preserves peace. He criticizes Tolstoy as an impractical moral guide, notes a Southerner’s portraits of class and race in Virginia fiction, and closes by urging supervision and progressive inheritance taxation of great fortunes—seeking equality of opportunity, not enforced equality of rewards. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: The Outlook Company, 1909  aSocial sciences  aUnited States -- Politics and government -- 1909-19134 uhttps://archive.org/details/outlookeditorials00roosrich40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77590  c118310d118310