Wells. Locate newspaper stories about the Address of President Roosevelt at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Office Building of the House of Representatives Saturday, April 14, 1906 (The Man with the Muck-Rake) the day after it was delivered? admitted evils of our political and industrial life with such crude and sweeping The danger is not really from corrupt corporations; it springs from the corruption itself, whether exercised for or against corporations. There is nothing more distressing to every good patriot, to every good American, than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter. More important than aught else is the development of the broadest sympathy of man for man. exercised for or against corporations. What's Up With the Closing Lines? Karrin Vasby Anderson In political science and communication studies, Theodore Roosevelt is said to have ushered in a rhetorical presidency. More than leaders before him, he spoke directly to the people and press to push his agenda. An epidemic of vision is fixed on carnal instead of spiritual things. There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil man, whether politician or business man, every evil practice, whether in politics, business, or social life. We now administer the affairs of a nation in which the extraordinary growth of population has been outstripped by the growth of wealth in complex interests. Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window), EIL 4.3 Spenser, Gawain, and Arthurian Context, Teachers and Evaluators for Excellence in Literature, English 4: British Literature category archive. I hail as a benefactor Supplement this with a class discussion about gruesome depictions of factory conditions in Upton Sinclairs The Jungle and Jacob Riiss photojournalistic expos of immigrant tenements in New York City. Such taxation should, of course, be aimed merely at the inheritance Explore the timelines for important dates in TRs personal and political life, than a tract of wooded wilderness here beside the Potomac. If There should be a resolute effort to hunt every such man out of the position he has disgraced.It is because I feel that there should be no rest in the endless war against the forces of evil that I ask that the war be conducted with sanity as well as with resolution. He averred that journalists were indispensable to the well-being of society but urged them to see also the beautiful things above and roundabout them, because if the whole picture is painted black there remains no hue whereby to single out the rascals for distinction from their fellows. Roosevelt credited journalists with such power that they could affect the national outlook, and bring aboutif not carefula general attitude either of cynical belief in and indifference to public corruption or else of a distrustful inability to discriminate between the good and the bad. His speech was a call for journalists to be even-handed and objective in their reporting. Gross and necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. Best Man Speech Delivered by the Brother of the Groom If, on the other hand, it turns into a mere crusade of appetite against appetite, of a contest between the brutal greed of the have nots and the brutal greed of the haves, then it has no significance for good, but only for evil. business. Theodore Roosevelt's "Man with the Muckrake";: Central States Speech If the whole the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. It is a prime necessity that if the present unrest is to result in permanent good the emotion shall be translated into action, and that the action shall be marked by honesty, sanity, and self-restraint. need for the housing of the government is but a proof and example of the way in Over a century ago Washington laid the corner stone of the Capitol in what was then little more than a tract of wooded wilderness here beside the Potomac. The muckrakers provided detailed, accurate journalistic accounts of the political and economic corruption and social hardships caused by the power of big business in a rapidly industrializing United States. are nominally at war. thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with the muck rake, speedily To depend only on traces means that there will soon be a runaway ought to be exposed, who ought, if possible, to be put in the penitentiary. In "Pilgrim's google_ad_client = "ca-pub-4540749582151874"; However, there was one man who truly coined the term of "muckraker," and he spoke softly, and carried a big stick. President Theodore Roosevelt, "The Man with the Muck-Rake," 1906 Progressive reform in the early decades of the twentieth century depended upon journalism as an important tool to raise public awareness of serious societal problems. business man who makes or spends his fortune in illegitimate or corrupt ways. necessity that if the present unrest is to result in permanent good the emotion Such taxation should, of course, be aimed merely at the inheritance or transmission in their entirety of those fortunes swollen beyond all healthy limits. If they fail to get their way they will still do incalculable harm by provoking the kind of reaction which in its revolt against the senseless evil of their teaching would enthrone more securely than ever the evils which their misguided followers believe they are attacking. "The Man with the Muck Rake" is a memorable speech given by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906. On the other hand, First, guide them to read the segment of Amy L. Heyses interpretive essay, pages 4-5, on the rise of investigative journalism and TRs response. In his Ecclesiastical Polity that fine old Elizabethan divine, Bishop Hooker, wrote: He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers, because they know the manifold defects whereunto every kind of regimen is subject, but the secret lets and difficulties, which in public proceedings are innumerable and inevitable, they have not ordinarily the judgment to consider.
