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HOW NOT TO HELP OUR POORER 

 BROTHER * 



AFTER the publication of my article in the Sep- 

 tember Review of Reviews on the Vice-Presi- 

 dential candidates, I received the following very 

 manly, and very courteous, letter from the Honor- 

 able Thomas Watson, then the candidate with Mr. 

 Bryan on the Populist ticket for Vice-President. I 

 publish it with his permission : 



HON. THEODORE ROOSEVELT: 



It pains me to be misunderstood by those whose 

 good opinion I respect, and upon reading your 

 trenchant article in the September number of the 

 Review of Reviews the impulse was strong to write 

 to you. 



When you take your stand for honester govern- 

 ment and for juster laws in New York, as you have 

 so courageously done, your motives must be the 

 same as mine for you do not need the money your 

 office gives you. I can understand, instinctively, 

 what you feel what your motives are. You merely 

 obey a law of your nature which puts you into mor- 

 tal combat with what you think is wrong. You fight 



* Review of Reviews, January, 1897. 

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