The Year of Our Lord, 1904

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Excerpt from The Year of Our Lord, 1904: A Survey of the World Mr. Roosevelt is at heart a social reformer, and in the days of his youth belonged to a coterie of social dreamers that might almost be regarded as Utopian in their schemes. He has succeeded in making the most remarkable personal, ethical, and social impression upon the people that ever was achieved by any President. And it was time. The love of wealth, the corrupt forms and principles of a decaying English aristocracy, the increasing love of pleasure as a chief end of life among our American youth, and certain conspicuous American immoralities, were rushing our country on toward social ruin. The President had prepared the people for this remarkable expression of his views by already declaring that he was for peace and not for war, but in his message, war has comparatively the most inconspicuous place of all. The navy and army are relegated to the end of the document and together constitute but one-eighteenth of the message, and the Philippines with their issues are as comparatively small. The meeting of the International Peace Conference in Boston early in October, the President's promise to try to call another Peace Conference at The Hague, his announcement that the administration is negotiating arbitration treaties with all the Powers that will enter into such negotiations, and Secretary Hay's address at the opening of the Boston Conference, claiming that when The Hague Conference lay apparently wrecked, at the beginning of its career, it was the American government which gave it the breath of life, and that we have set an example to the world during the past two years in the matter of disarmament, bringing away from the Far East 55, 000 soldiers and reducing our Army to its minimum of 60, 000 men, seem to give countenance to the earnestness of the President's intentions. When we recall the fact that Frederic W. Holls, the secretary of The Hague Conference and a most indefatigable laborer for the world's peace, was a warm personal friend and co-worker of Roosevelt's, the actions of the President seem natural. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.