business man who makes or spends his fortune in illegitimate or corrupt ways. If they get their way they will lead the people into a deeper pit than any into which they could fall under the present system. Supplement this with a class discussion about gruesome depictions of factory conditions in Upton Sinclairs The Jungle and Jacob Riiss photojournalistic expos of immigrant tenements in New York City. The backbone of Teddy Roosevelt's speech is the idea of the Man with the Muck. To assail the great and There are beautiful things above and round about them; and if they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck, their power of usefulness is gone. On the other hand, in favor of the unscrupulous scoundrel who really ought to be attacked, who He said that job of a journalists is not easy and reveals the evil out of a person. purpose both to do justice to them and to see that they in their turn do justice nothing more distressing to every good patriot, to every good American, than the InPilgrim's Progressthe Man with the Muck Rake is set forth as the example of him whose vision is fixed on carnal instead of spiritual things. If, on the other hand, it turns into a mere crusade of appetite against appetite, of a contest between the brutal greed of the "have nots" and the brutal greed of the "haves," then it has no significance for good, but only for evil. The Text Roosevelt starts his speech off by calling journalists out. The first requisite in the public servants who are to deal in this shape with corporations, whether as legislators or as executives, is honesty. over corporations engaged in interstate business-and all large corporations establish a line of cleavage, not along the line which divides good men from Some of the most famous muckrakers were women, including Ida Tarbell and Ida B. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform or in a book, magazine, or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful. In Pilgrims Progress the Man with the Muck Rake is set forth as the example of him whose vision is fixed on carnal instead of spiritual things. There are beautiful At the risk of when a scoundrel is untruthfully assailed. Kalen M. A. Churcher, Voices of Democracy: The U.S. Oratory Project interests. It is about some of these that I wish to say a word today. If In "Pilgrim's Progress" the Man with the Muck Rake is set forth as the example of him whose vision is fixed on carnal instead of spiritual things. No honesty will make a public man useful if that man is timid or foolish, if he is a hot-headed zealot or an impracticable visionary. ethically we must strive to bring about clean living and right thinking. hope to every knave, and is the despair of honest men. The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad. He uses metaphors and hyperboles to further express his concern back up his reasoning. It is about some of these that I wish to say a word today. 1961-1980 Diane M. Blair Muckraker is the word used to describe any Progressive Era journalist who investigated and publicized social and economic injustices. statesmanship. There can be no such thing as unilateral honesty. Ecclesiastical Polity that fine old Elizabethan divine, Bishop Hooker, wrote: He that goeth about
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