Jacob A. Riis (1849–1914). Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen. 1904.
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| b’ys will have their little scrap with the police—come to me for bail—any crime! any crime!” |
| Say not that the freedom of the city by the lake has not been conferred upon me. It has. Even Mayor Harrison will have to own it. |
| But this chapter has outrun its space, and I have n’t yet said what I had in mind concerning Theodore Roosevelt. I will drop reminiscences and settle right down to it now. |