American Problems [Illustration: Copyright 1910 by Moffett Studio Theodore Roosevelt ] American Problems Theodore Roosevelt New York The Outlook Company 1910 Copyright 1910 by The Outlook Company New York All rights reserved ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Contents PAGE The Management of Small States Which Are Unable to Manage 3 Themselves A Remedy for Some Forms of Selfish Legislation 11 Rural Life 29 The Progressives, Past and Present 45 The Pioneer Spirit and American Problems 91 The Tariff: A Moral Issue 111 THE CHAPTERS CONTAINED IN THIS BOOK PRESENT MR. ROOSEVELT’S VIEWS ON MANY OF THE GREAT NATIONAL ISSUES OF TODAY. THEY WERE WRITTEN SINCE MR. ROOSEVELT’S RETURN TO AMERICA, AND APPEARED ORIGINALLY IN THE OUTLOOK AS EDITORIALS OR ARTICLES The Management of Small States Which are Unable to Manage Themselves In the issue of The Outlook for June 18 there was a quotation from a letter of an Anti-Imperialist correspondent, who, in speaking of Egypt and the Philippines, stated that the proper course to pursue was to protect countries of this nature by international agreement, the writer citing in support of his theory the way in which many small powers had their territories guaranteed by international agreement.