INTRODUCTION 



BY ALBERT SHAW 



THE materials contained in the Addresses and 

 State Papers of President Roosevelt, here col 

 lected for the first time, possess far more than a tran 

 sitory interest and value. It is obvious indeed that 

 for the future student of American politics and his 

 tory their preservation in convenient and authentic 

 form is not merely an important service, but an in 

 dispensable one; for it would have been impossible 

 to collate them in any accurate or complete way from 

 the scattered files of newspapers, especially since 

 many of the addresses were delivered at points re 

 mote from news centres, and some of these were very 

 inadequately reported by the press. This observa 

 tion, it is needless to say, does not apply to the formal 

 State Papers, chiefly messages to Congress, in 

 cluded in the second of these two volumes ; for such 

 official deliverances are duly preserved and published 

 by the Government itself. It is, however, suitable 

 as well as convenient to include these State Papers 



in a collection of the recent utterances of President 

 i VOL. XIII. (i) 



