[The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Burton J. Hendrick]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II CHAPTER XVIII 4/51
Now did he really have the minds of the people or did T.R.? If we've really gone to sleep and if the United States stands for nothing but personal comfort and commercialism to our own people, what a job you and the patriotic men of your generation have cut out for you! My own conviction (which I don't set great store by) is that our isolation and prosperity have not gone so far in softening us as it seems.
They've gone a good way, no doubt; but I think that even the Jonesville people yet feel their Americanism.
What they need is--leadership.
Their Congressmen are poor, timid, pork-barrel creatures.
Their governors are in training for the Senate.
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