1912 U.S. Election Campaign Speech Audio (Teddy Roosevelt)

Live phonograph recording of former president Teddy Roosevelt speech regarding special interest corruption in the Democrat and Republican parties, given more than a century ago (1912).

Words are just as true today as they were then. Could have been spoken by Donald Trump. Worth a listen, despite the poor audio quality.

Theodore Roosevelt: Degenerates have no business reproducing their kind

My dear Mr. Davenport: I am greatly interested in the two memoirs you have sent me. They are very instructive, and, from the standpoint of our country, very ominous. You say that these people are not themselves responsible, that it is "society" that is responsible. I agree with you if you mean, as I suppose you do, that society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind. It is really extraordinary that our people refuse to apply to human beings such elementary knowledge as every successful farmer is obliged to apply to his own stock breeding. Any group of farmers who permitted their best stock not to breed, and let all the increase come from the worst stock, would be treated as fit inmates for an asylum. Yet we fail to understand that such conduct is rational compared to the conduct of a nation which permits unlimited breeding from the worst stocks, physically and morally, while it encourages or connives at the cold selfishness or the twisted sentimentality as a result of which the men and women ought to marry, and if married have large families, remain celebates or have no children or only one or two. Some day we will realize that the prime duty the inescapable duty of the good citizen of the right type is to leave his or her blood behind him in the world; and that we have no business to permit the perpetuation of citizens of the wrong type.

Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt

RINO TR lost the GOP nomination then ran as Independent on an awful platform that was to the left of the rat platform (the rats lied and pretended to be more conservative that they were). He allowed rat scumbag Woodrow Wilson to win an EC landslide on a pathetic 42% of the vote and fewer votes than the rat got in 1908. I retroactively stand with President Taft against the egomaniac spoiler TR and his attacks on American enterprise.

This is not a “live” recording—i.e., it was not made during a public speech.

It is a cylinder recording made in a studio.

Note the amazing frequency response. S’s are clearly heard.

TR was a fiend.

I would have voted for Taft in 1912. TR’s rogue third campaign really screwed the GOP. But to be fair, TR saw the error of his ways and returned to the GOP fold in 1916 and endorsed Charles Evans Hughes. He campaigned hard against Woody Wilson and noted that the RAT president had been a disaster for America.

It’s an important footnote given that the history revisionists will use people like TR to pretend the GOP was the “liberal” party back then and the Dems were the “conservatives” and that the two parties “switched sides” in more recent decades.

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