He has outdone them all.
"And how utterly the President has routed the pretensions of Bryan, and of the whole Democratic horde in respect to organized labor! How empty were all their professions, their mouthings and their howlings in the face of the simple and unpretentious achievements of the President! In his own straightforward fashion he inflicted upon capital in one short hour of the coal strike a greater humiliation than Bryan could have visited upon it in a century.

He is the leader of the labor unions of the United States.

Mr.Roosevelt has put them above the law and above the Constitution, because for him they are the American people." [This last, I need hardly say, is merely a rhetorical method of saying that I gave the labor union precisely the same treatment as the corporation.] Senator La Follette, in the issue of his magazine immediately following my leaving the Presidency in March, 1909, wrote as follows: "Roosevelt steps from the stage gracefully.

He has ruled his party to a large extent against its will.

He has played a large part in the world's work, for the past seven years.