[Illustration: Theodore Roosevelt] A Square Deal By Theodore Roosevelt The matter contained is this book has been carefully prepared from the many addresses by the President, the aim being to bring under each specific head the ideas expressed on many occasions. ❦ With New Photogravure Portrait Allendale, N. J. The Allendale Press _Copyright, 1906_ _By Horace Markley_ _Entered at Stationers Hall_ _All Rights Reserved_ A Square Deal and Ideals of Citizenship—p. 8 The Dignity of Labor—p. 18 The Workingman—p. 28 Labor Unions—p. 36 The Business Man—p. 46 Success in Life—p. 52 The Man Who Counts—p. 58 Education—p. 64 The School Teacher—p. 74 The Nobility of Parenthood—p. 82 Great Riches—p. 96 The Farmer—p. 104 The Trusts—p. 114 The Problem of the South—p. 126 Lynch Law—p. 134 The Indians—p. 142 Immigration—p. 148 The Chinese Question—p. 160 Official Corruption—p. 164 The Monroe Doctrine—p. 172 The World’s Peace—p. 184 The Essence of Christian Character—p. 198 With granite, once a genius bridged a stream. A builder once a rugged temple wrought; On canvas once a painter fixed a thought; A sculptor once in marble carved a dream; A queen once built a tomb, and in the scheme Of gold and bronze the quivering sunbeams caught; Then came oblivion, unseen, unsought, Contemptuous of thinker and of theme. And some one wrote a book. Palace and Hall Are gone. Marble and bronze are dust. The fanes Are fallen which the sun old sought. The rook At morn, caws garrulously over all. All! All are gone. The book alone remains. Man builds no structure which outlives a book. By HON E. F. WARE _Late U. S. Pension Commissioner_ FOREWORD If it were possible to place this volume in the hands of every American citizen I feel profoundly convinced there would follow an uplift toward right-living and right-thinking which would affect the destiny of our race more than anything which has yet occurred in our history.