. The story of American democracy, political and industrial . ark an epoch. In public addresses the strenuousPresident denounced in startling terms the insolence andcriminal greed of aggregated capital, and so aroused thepeople to the need of action. The actual achievements of theadministration in its professed work of curbing the trustsand monopolies were less significant. Still the classifiedlist under the civil service reform law was extended toinclude even the smallest country postmasters in the moresettled half of the country; the Interstate Commerce Com-mission was revived by the Hepburn
. The story of American democracy, political and industrial . ark an epoch. In public addresses the strenuousPresident denounced in startling terms the insolence andcriminal greed of aggregated capital, and so aroused thepeople to the need of action. The actual achievements of theadministration in its professed work of curbing the trustsand monopolies were less significant. Still the classifiedlist under the civil service reform law was extended toinclude even the smallest country postmasters in the moresettled half of the country; the Interstate Commerce Com-mission was revived by the Hepburn amendment (page 632); AND THEODORE ROOSEVELT 673 suits were pressed vigorously against many trusts under theSherman Act and Interstate Commerce law; ^ the scan-dalous conditions in the Chicago stockyards were in-vestigated ; a Pure Food law forbade Interstate Commercein adulterated foods; and, most important of all, newemphasis was given to the conservation of National re-sources— a doctrine formulated by Gilford Pinchot, andpopularized by the The Arrow Rock Dam (Idaho), still building in 1918 when this photo was taken:part of one of the most famous of all the governments projects to irrigate aridlands. This dam is 67 feet higher than the great Roosevelt Dam in Arizona. President Roosevelt was attacked by certain of the in-terests as a disturber of prosperity; but he had a holdupon the nation such as no other Presidents had approached,with the exception of Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, and 1 During the preceding administrations of Harrison, Cleveland, and McKinley,there had been in all 16 prosecutions; in Roosevelts seven years there were 44,though little actual check to the trusts resulted. 2 State laws had already begun a long-needed war upon noxious Roosevelt, in one of his catchy phrases, — No man may poison the publicfor private gain. 674 THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT Lincoln. At the same time extreme radicals disliked hisaggressive foreign
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