TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Some minor changes to the text are noted at the [end of the book].

The original edition did not include a Table of Contents. For the convenience of the reader one has been created:

Introduction[i]
The Presidency[1]
Addresses and State Papers[14]
Speech of President Roosevelt at the Reunion of the Department Of the Potomac, G. A. R., at the New Willard Hotel, Washington, D.⁠ C., Feb. 19, 1902[14]
At the Charleston Exposition, Wednesday, April 9, 1902[18]
At New York at the Banquet at Sherry’s in Honor of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, April 19, 1902[27]
To the Graduating Class, Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., May 2, 1902[33]
At the Banquet of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Washington, D.⁠ C., May 2, 1902[36]
At the Laying of the Cornerstone of the McKinley Memorial Ohio College of Government of the American University, Washington, D.⁠ C., May 14, 1902[39]
At the Exercises of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, Attending the Reburial of Major-general William Stark Rosecrans, Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, D.⁠ C., May 17, 1902[40]
At the Centennial Meeting of the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church, Carnegie Hall, New York, N. Y., on the Evening of May 20, 1902[44]
At the Overflow Meeting of the Centennial of Presbyterian Home Missions, Central Presbyterian Church, New York, N. Y., May 20, 1902[50]
On the Occasion of the Unveiling of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument at Arlington, Under the Auspices of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, May 21, 1902[53]
At Arlington, Memorial Day, May 30, 1902[56]
At the Opening Session of the Military Surgeons’ Association, Washington, D.⁠ C., June 5, 1902[68]
At the Centennial Celebration of the Establishment of the United States Military Academy, West Point, June 11, 1902[70]
At the Harvard Commencement Dinner, Cambridge, Mass., June 25, 1902[78]
At the Coliseum, Hartford, Conn., August 22, 1902[85]
At Providence, R. I., August 23, 1902[98]
At Symphony Hall, Boston, August 25, 1902[108]
At Haverhill, Mass., August 26, 1902[118]
At Portland, Maine, August 26, 1902[122]
At Augusta, Maine, August 26, 1902[124]
At Bangor, Maine, August 27, 1902[126]
At Northfield, Mass., September 1, 1902[134]
At Fitchburg, Mass., September 2, 1902[137]
At Dalton, Mass., September 3, 1902[144]
At Wheeling, W. Va., September 6, 1902[146]
To the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, Chattanooga, Tenn., September 8, 1902[156]
At Danville, Va., September 9, 1902[167]
At Music Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio, on the Evening of September 20, 1902[169]
At the Banquet of the Spanish War Veterans, Detroit, Mich., September 22, 1902[185]
At Logansport, Ind., September 23, 1902[187]
At the Banquet of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, at New York, November 11, 1902[196]
At the Banquet Tendered General Luke E. Wright, at Memphis, Tenn., November 19, 1902[202]
At the Reception to General Wright at Memphis, Tenn., November 19, 1902[208]
At the Founders’ Day Banquet of the Union League, Philadelphia, Pa., November 22, 1902[211]
At the Banquet to Justice Harlan, the New Willard Hotel, Washington, D.⁠ C., December 9, 1902[221]
Reception of a Delegation from the National Board of Trade, Washington, D.⁠ C., January 15, 1903[225]
At the Banquet of the Young Men’s Christian Association, New Willard Hotel, Washington, D.⁠ C., Jan. 19, 1903[226]
At the Banquet at Canton, Ohio, January 27, 1903, in Honor of the Birthday of the Late President McKinley[231]
At Carnegie Hall, New York, N. Y., February 26, 1903, Upon the Occasion of the Bi-centennial Celebration of the Birth of John Wesley[242]
At a Meeting of the Society of American Foresters, Held at the Residence of Mr. Gifford Pinchot, Washington, D.⁠ C., March 26, 1903[249]
At Chicago, Ill., April 2, 1903[257]
At Waukesha, Wis., April 3, 1903[268]
At Milwaukee, Wis., April 3, 1903[272]
Before the Minnesota Legislature, St. Paul, Minn., April 4, 1903[286]
In the Chapel of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn., April 4, 1903[292]
At Minneapolis, Minn., April 4, 1903[294]
At Sioux Falls, S. D., April 6, 1903[302]
At Fargo, North Dakota, April 7, 1903[310]
At Medora, North Dakota, April 7, 1903[320]
At Jamestown, N. D., April 7, 1903[321]
At Laying of Cornerstone of Gateway to Yellowstone National Park, Gardiner, Montana, April 24, 1903[324]
At Omaha, Neb., April 27, 1903[329]
From Address at Quincy, Ill., April 29, 1903[335]
At Odeon Hall, St. Louis, Mo., Before the National and International Good Roads Convention, April 29, 1903[336]
At St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, April 29, 1903[341]
At the Dedication Ceremonies of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, April 30, 1903[341]
At Topeka, Kansas, May 1, 1903[353]
From Address at Denver, Col., May 4, 1903[361]
At Santa Fe, New Mexico, May 5, 1903[364]
At the Catholic School, Albuquerque, N. M., May 5, 1903[368]
At the Indian School, Albuquerque, N. M., May 5, 1903[368]
At Grand Canyon, Arizona, May 6, 1903[369]
At Barstow, California, May 7, 1903[372]
At San Bernardino, Cal., May 7, 1903[373]
At the Big Tree Grove, Santa Cruz, Cal., May 11, 1903[375]
At Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, Cal., May 12, 1903[377]
At Mechanics’ Pavilion, San Francisco, Cal., May 13, 1903[390]
At the Ceremonies Incident to the Breaking of Sod For the Erection of a Monument in Memory of the Late President McKinley, San Francisco, Cal., May 13, 1903[397]

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Some of President Roosevelt’s addresses on public questions called him across the continent. However, he always transacted an enormous amount of public business en route

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