He immediately began the salutary and indispensable work of nationalizing the reform movement.
The nationalization of reform endowed the movement with new vitality and meaning.

What Mr.Roosevelt really did was to revive the Hamiltonian ideal of constructive national legislation.

During the whole of the nineteenth century that ideal, while by no means dead, was disabled by associations and conditions from active and efficient service.

Not until the end of the Spanish War was a condition of public feeling created, which made it possible to revive Hamiltonianism.

That war and its resulting policy of extra-territorial expansion, so far from hindering the process of domestic amelioration, availed, from the sheer force of the national aspirations it aroused, to give a tremendous impulse to the work of national reform.