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Theodore Roosevelt and His Times, a Chronicle of the Progressive
Movement
by Harold Howland

CONTENTS
I. THE YOUNG FIGHTER II. IN THE NEW YORK ASSEMBLY III.
THE CHAMPION OF CIVIL SERVICE REFORM IV. HAROUN AL
ROOSEVELT V. FIGHTING AND BREAKFASTING WITH PLATT
VI. ROOSEVELT BECOMES PRESIDENT VII. THE SQUARE
DEAL FOR BUSINESS VIII. THE SQUARE DEAL FOR LABOR IX.
RECLAMATION AND CONSERVATION X. BEING WISE IN
TIME XI. RIGHTS, DUTIES, AND REVOLUTIONS XII. THE TAFT
ADMINISTRATION XIII. THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY XIV. THE
GLORIOUS FAILURE XV. THE FIGHTING EDGE XVI. THE LAST
FOUR YEARS BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND HIS TIMES

CHAPTER I.
THE YOUNG FIGHTER
There is a line of Browning's that should stand as epitaph for Theodore
Roosevelt: "I WAS EVER A FIGHTER." That was the essence of the
man, that the keynote of his career. He met everything in life with a
challenge. If it was righteous, he fought for it; if it was evil, he hurled
the full weight of his finality against it. He never capitulated, never
sidestepped, never fought foul. He carried the fight to the enemy.
His first fight was for health and bodily vigor. It began, at the age of
nine. Physically he was a weakling, his thin and ill-developed body
racked with asthma. But it was only the physical power that was
wanting, never the intellectual or the spiritual. He owed to his father,
the first Theodore, the wise counsel that launched him on his
determined contest against ill health. On the third floor of the house on
East Twentieth Street in New York where he was born, October 27,
1858, his father had constructed an outdoor gymnasium, fitted with all
the usual paraphernalia. It was an impressive moment, Roosevelt used
to say in later years, when his father first led him into that gymnasium
and said to him, "Theodore, you have the brains, but brains are of
comparatively little use without the body; you have got to make your
body, and it lies with you to make it. It's dull, hard work, but you can
do it." The boy knew that his father was right; and he set those white,
powerful teeth of his and took up the drudgery of daily, monotonous
exercise with bars and rings and