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Source: Mother Earth Source type: magazine Document type: editorial column Document title: “Observations and Comments” Author(s): anonymous Date of publication: October 1907 Volume number: 2 Issue number: 8 Pagination: 295-302 (excerpt below includes only page 297) |
| Citation |
| “Observations and Comments.” Mother Earth Oct. 1907 v2n8: pp. 295-302. |
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| Keywords |
| McKinley memorial (Canton, OH: dedication); Theodore Roosevelt (criticism). |
| Named persons |
| Charles J. Bonaparte; Theodore Roosevelt. |
| Notes |
| Regarding the reference to Bonaparte below: The preceding editorial in this column alludes to Secretary of Navy Bonaparte’s suggestion a year prior that “Anarchists should be punished by flogging” and points to his genealogical connection with a “family of Corsican banditti” whose “family virtues” include “[b]rutality, arrogance and stupidity.” |
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Observations and Comments [excerpt]
At the recent dedication of the McKinley monument
at Canton, Ohio, the President again let loose a speech upon a long-suffering
public.
Roosevelt’s speeches strongly remind one of Teddy
bears: they all look alike. Of course, the Strenuous One is always sure of an
audience: man’s love of the circus is proverbial. But not even Bonaparte could
have invented a more inhumane punishment than the forced reading of the President’s
speeches.