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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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ew it to see where there was a chance formistake. Finding none, he would issue his or-der with the sober comment : There, we havedone tlie best w^e could. If there is any mistakewe will make it right. The fear of it shall notdeter us from doing our duty. The only manwho never makes a mistake is the man who neverdoes anything. When he had done his work for the ships andresigned his office to take the field, the croakersshouted that at last he had made the mistake ofhis life ;—all to get into a scrap. His men didntthink so when he lay with them in the trenchesbefore Santiago, sharing his last biscuit w4thtliem. They got to know him there, and to lovehim. I know what it cost him to leave his sickwife and his babies. I wanted to keep him athome, but I saw him go with pride, because Iknew he went at the call of duty. He thoughtthe war just and right. He had done what hecould to bring it on as the only means of stoppingthe murder in Cuba, and he went to do his share THEODORE ROOSEVELT 185
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MR. ROOSKVELTS RANCH ON THE LITTLE MISSOURI, IN THE BAD LANDS. 01 the fighting as a matter of i-ight and of exampleto the young men to whom he was a type of thecitizen and the patriot. As that type, when hecame liome, we made him our governor in NewYork State. AYe ran him on the pledge of liisrecord—the pledge of honesty, manhood, andcourage ; and he kept the pledge. I shall letsome one else tell the story of that. Just let merecall the last trip we took together, because itwas so much like the old days in MulbeiiyStreet. There had arisen a contention as towhether the factory inspector did his duty by tliesweat-shops or not, and from the testimony hewas unable to decide. So he came down fromAlbany to see for himself. It was a swelteringhot day when we made a tour of the stewing tene-ments on the down-town east side. I doubt ifany other governor that ever was would attempt it.I know tliat none ever did. But he never shirkedone of the twenty houses we had marked out forexploration. He

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