Col. R. attained the place which he held for many years, as the leading social reformer in America, [through] his life long habit of tackling a
He came to this conviction ↑early in life↓ at the very moment when England, who was [better] us at the [game] was formally ↑first establishing↓ [illegible] program for securing ↓[illegible] [four?] three↓ [illegible] [a social] [illegible] ↑responsible↓ for [social spirit?] [illegible] wages.
Perhaps because he had started life as a scientist, he backed up all these measures of social reform by careful first hand knowledge of actual conditions. [page 2]
As young Assemblyman
Cigar making in tenements.
Gompers -- [illegible] dangerously.
Court of appeal -- N.Y.
As Police Comm
vice problems, lifted out of municipal blackmail.
Jacob Riis police reporter -- did away with police station of sleeping [illegible] lodging house.
As Gov of N.Y.
Housing exhibit in N.Y. 1899.
[taken to Paris] tell story.
Mulberry board [park?]
activities to [illegible] [page 3]
As President
Pres't House Commission in Washington.
[Senate] story. boy until running, third alley in [illegible].
White House Conference of Dependent Children -- story "last of [illegible]"
Child labor efforts ↑he had previous activity↓ visited Alabama mills
authorized investigation into women & children & industry
laid foundation for Children's Bureau [although] Act did not pass until after Mr Taft's election & Mr Taft appointed Miss Lathrop.
"over grown corporations" fearlessly attacked.
Coal Strike -- newspaper accounts.
Stockyards sensation novel [page 4]
In all this he had much of Lincoln's ability of being able to remember how people thought & felt. "A man ↑I knew↓ in Sangamon Co."
Also able to throw it into his reading --Edith Wyatt story.
It is not be wondered that Soc. Workers rallied to him. The famous social justice planks forwarded in a statement issued by a Com. of the Com. of Charities & Cors. ↑It was a↓ [illegible] [illegible] ↑during the campaign in↓ [illegible] to [shelter?] the Soc. W. swallowed him or he swallowed us -- a joke which the Col. never tired of. [page 5] Certainly these words as much social evangelizing as political insurgency in that stirring campaign & with [illegible] the other, some Phila. lawyer of the public will have to decide, certainly no one knows yet. [illegible words] "I think [illegible]"
Suffrage small to [illegible] that couldn't [illegible] young soldiers talking on
Nobel prize -- first to use the office of The Hague Court.
characteristic of part of his courage Alaska. Sense of justice [prevent?] materialism.
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