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I went in and shut the door, and then told it all to him. Nor did I mince matters; I might not get so good a chance again. Mr. Parker sat quite still, poking the fire. When I ceased at last, angry and exasperated, he looked up and said calmly: "Well, Mr. Riis, what you tell me has at least the merit of frankness." You see how it was. I should never have been able to help in the Board.
These tales, though in the garb of fiction, are true. "I could not have invented them had I tried; I should not have tried if I could," Mr. Riis tells us in a prefatory note. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman By H. G. WELLS. Cloth, 12mo. $1.50 net. The name of H. G. Wells upon a title page is an assurance of merit.
Roosevelt has spoken of himself as "a very ordinary man." A pleasant story is told by Mr. Riis of the lady who said: "I have always wanted to make Roosevelt out a hero, but somehow, every time he did something that seemed really great, it turned out, upon looking at it closely, that it was only just the right thing to do." Are Americans more Honest than Englishmen?
Riis writes in his newspaper and in the magazines, and by which he makes a living, and for the life of me I never was able to understand how any one could be found to pay for such stuff." So there you have my measure as a reformer. The meeting nodded gravely. I was apparently the only one there who took it as a joke. I spoke of the women's share in the progress we made. A good big one it was.
I need not impress upon the Assembly the need of passing this bill at once .... It establishes the principle that hereafter corporations holding franchises from the public shall pay their just share of the public burden.* * Riis, 221. The Speaker, the Assembly, and the Machine now gave heed.
When Roosevelt became Police Commissioner, Riis was in the Tribune Police Bureau in Mulberry Street, opposite Police Headquarters, already a well valued friend. Roosevelt took him for guide, and together they tramped about the dark spots of the city in the night hours when the underworld slips its mask and bares its arm to strike. Roosevelt had to know for himself.
Colonel Theodore B. Roosevelt on the Colored Soldiers Colonel Roosevelt's Error Jacob A. Riis Compliments Negro Soldiers-General Nelson A. Miles Compliments Negro Soldiers Cleveland Moffitt Compliments the Negro Soldiers President McKinley Promotes Negro Soldiers General Thomas J. Morgan on Negro Officers.
One of the best allies that Roosevelt had was Jacob A. Riis, that extraordinary man with the heart of a child, the courage of a lion, and the spirit of a crusader, who came from Denmark as an immigrant, tramped the streets of New York and the country roads without a place to lay his head, became one of the best police reporters New York ever knew, and grew to be a flaming force for righteousness in the city of his adoption.
From experiences that would have spelled permanent degradation to a man of baser metal, he won the knowledge, sympathy, and inspiration that made him one of the most exceptionally useful and exceptionally loved of American citizens. From "The Making of an American," by Jacob A. Riis. The Macmillan Company. Copyright, 1901-'08.
He called thieves thieves, regardless of their millions; he slashed savagely at the judge and the Attorney General; he told the plain unvarnished truth as his indignant eyes saw it.* * Riis, 54-55. Astonishment verging on consternation filled the Assemblymen, who, through long experience, were convinced that Truth was too precious to be exhibited in public.
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