Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-01-07
Colonel Roosevelts Life Is
Series of Notable Events
Effecting Worlds History

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The Republican National Convention
of 1904 having unanimously nominated
Roosevelt for President in his own
right, he was elected by a popular
plurality of about two and one-half
million votes. To the first session of
Congress which convened after his
formal Inauguration as President he
proposed several far-reaching meas
ures, most of which became laws.
These included acts giving the govern
ment larger scope in the regulation of
railroad rates; requiring a more rigid
inspection of meat products, punish
ing adulteration of foods; removing the
the tax on denature alcohol for use
in the arts; organicafiy reforming the
consular service; throwing national
safeguards about the naturalization
system; providing for the admission of
Oklahoma and Indian Territory joint
" as a state, and submitting to local
popular vote similar plan for Ari-
zone and New Mexico.
His most notable achievement was
in bringing to close, with no official
authority as arbitrator the Russo
Japanese War. For this he was
awarded the Noble Peace Prize in 1906.
In Cuba, a revolutionary outbreak
having occurred in the fall Of 1906, he
took advantage of a right reserved by
the United States Governmet, sent
thither an army of pacification and
installed a provisional government to
maintain order till normal conditions
could be restored.
The secession of Panama from the
ed the way for the assumption by the
United States of the construction work
which had been carried on till that
time under French auspices. The rec
ognition of the seeding state as an
independent republic, and the nego-
tiation of treaty vesting the neces-
sary rights in the United States Gov
eminent, have been styles the Roose-
welt coup detat', and for some time
drew a severe fire of criticism from
the nti-administration group in Con-
gress and the opposition press. But
the enactment of law confering prac-
tically EDITORIAL powers in the Canal
Zone upon the President placed the
matter on a settled footing, and there
after he supervised every stage of the
proceedings, even visiting the Isthmus
in person in 1906
Roosevelt also prosecuted vigorous
warfare against the aggressions of in
dustrial monopolies, and turned the
energy of the Department of Justice
upon several of the so-called trusts.
He also strongly favored legisla-
ton giving the Federal Government
larger control of supervision of the at
fairs of corporations of all kinds.
Under President Roosevelt's in
structions, a fleet of sixteen battle
ships sailed on Dec. 16, 1907, for a
voyage around the world. 1t was
warmly received at the different Latin
American ports and the cities of Aus
tralia, while it's reception by the Jap
anese on Oct %, 1908, surpassed all
the previous festivities. The fleet ar
rived in Hampton Roads on February
81, 1910, and there welcomed home by
the President About this time, his
action in protesting against a measure
of the California Legislature depriving
Japanese children of equal privileges
in the public schools-particularly OBJ
noxious to Japan-prevent the enact
ment of this measure.
On March 4, 1909, Roosevelt retired
from office, having completed an I'M
broken period of twenty years of eX-
ecutive work, during seven and half
of which he had been President of the
United States. Before the expiration
of his term he had planned an eX-
petition to Africa to hunt, and Incl
dentally to gather specimen of rare
fauna for the Smithsonian Institution,
which outfitted the expedition. Ills
party included his son Kermit and a
small group of naturalists. On March
%, 1909, they sailed from New York
bound for Mombaas. British East
Africa. Between their landing on
April q, and the emergence at Khar-
tum on March 4, 1910, the expedition
visited the Athi and Kapiti plains, the
Sotik, Lake Naivasha Mount Kenia,
the Guaso Nyoro and the Uasin Gisbu
region, the Rift valley, the Leikipia
Plateau Lake Hannigton, part of
the White Nile, the Lado, Lake No