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from President Theodore Roosevelt's first State of the Union Message, December 3, 1901
Roosevelt served as Vice-President to William McKinley, joining the ticket for the 1900 Presidential Election. When McKinley was
assassinated by an anarchist on September 6, 1901, Roosevelt became president
The most vital problem with which this country, and for that matter the whole civilized world, has to deal, is the problem which has for one
side the betterment of social conditions, moral and physical, in large cities, and for another side the effort to deal with that tangle of far-
reaching questions which we group together when we speak of "labor." The chief factor in the success of each man--wage-worker, farmer,
and capitalist alike--must ever be the sum total of his own individual qualities and abilities. Second only to this comes the power of acting in
combination or association with others. Very great good has been and will be accomplished by associations or unions of wage-workers,
when managed with forethought, and when they combine insistence upon their own rights with law-abiding respect for the rights of others.
The display of these qualities in such bodies is a duty to the nation no less than to the associations themselves. Finally, there must also in
many cases be action by the Government in order to safeguard the rights and interests of all. Under our Constitution there is much more
scope for such action by the State and the municipality than by the nation. But on points such as those touched on above the National
Government can act.
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