. Review of reviews and world's work. ty years, and I had seenmany sparring matches between working men andthe police board. Generally, there was bad faithon one side ; not infrequently on both. It washuman that some of the labor men should misin-terpret Mr. Roosevelts motives when, as presi-dent of the board, he sent word that he wantedto meet them and talk strike troubles over withthem. They got it into their heads, I suppose,that he had come to crawl ; but they were speed-ily undeceived. I can see his face now, as hechecked the first one who hinted at trouble. Ifancy that man can see it, to
. Review of reviews and world's work. ty years, and I had seenmany sparring matches between working men andthe police board. Generally, there was bad faithon one side ; not infrequently on both. It washuman that some of the labor men should misin-terpret Mr. Roosevelts motives when, as presi-dent of the board, he sent word that he wantedto meet them and talk strike troubles over withthem. They got it into their heads, I suppose,that he had come to crawl ; but they were speed-ily undeceived. I can see his face now, as hechecked the first one who hinted at trouble. Ifancy that man can see it, too—in his dreams. Gentlemen, said Mr. Roosevelt, I havecome to get your point of view, and see if wecant agree to help each other out. But we wantto make it clear to ourselves at the start that thegreatest damage any working man can do to hiscause is to counsel violence. Order must bemaintained ; and, make no mistake, I will main-tain it. * I was, at the time, executive oflacer of the Good-Gov-ernment Clubs. THEODORE ROOSEl^ELT. 183. MR. ROOSEVELTS SUMMER HOME, OYSTER BAY, LONG ISLAND I tingled with pride when they cheered him tothe echo. They had come to meet a met a man, and they knew him at sight. It was after midnight when we plodded homefrom that meeting through snow two feet deep,Mr. Roosevelt was pleased and proud—proud ofhis fellow-citizens. They are all right, hesaid. We understand each other, and weshall get along. And they did get along, withperfect confidence on both sides. The scoundrelsin and out of the newspaper business who satin the chimney-corner that night took it out indeclaring that Roosevelt had gone to a dive—a Seeley dinner show. It happened that therewas a music hall on the ground floor of thebuilding in which the labor men met. Rooseveltnever took any notice of their attacks. He hadother things—real things, to do ; and for theman who didnt fight fair, he had only never struck a foul blow in his life, no mat-ter how ho
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