The theme which Roosevelt use repeatedly to appeal to the audience's emotions is Good versus evil.
In this speech Roosevelt termed, for the first time, journalists as muckrakers. In Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress you may recall the description of the Man with the Muck-rake, the man who could look no way but downward, with the muck-rake in his hand; who was offered a celestial crown for his muck-rake, but who would neither look up nor regard the crown he was offered, but continued to rake to himself the filth of the floor.
It is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There are, in the body politic, economic and social, many and grave evils, and there is urgent necessity for the sternest war upon them.
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