President Theodore Roosevelt spoke to a huge crowd from the balcony of the English Hotel in Indianapolis. He was in the city to support a bill introduced by Senator Albert Beveridge for a tariff commission.
My, have we fallen. TR, a New Yorker who was the advocate of the Strenuous Life was of course a Republican, and young. Now we have a demented octogenarian supposed Republican who believes that exercise is bad for you destroying the country and imposing tariffs right and left.
Sic transit.
The Interstate Commerce Commission issued the first regulations requiring ladders, sill steps and hand brakes on all railroad cars in the United States.
Darned government bureaucrats and their outrageous regulations.
As an aside, you may have noted that the Administration's official talking point for those that their laying off is that they are bureaucrats, in the hopes that populsts Americans, no matter how utterly pointless their own jobs may be, will like bureaucrats getting laid off.
Divide et impera.
The Polo Grounds on this day in 1910:
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