The creation of the Department of Commerce and Labor.

The law for building the Panama Canal.

The laws to prevent impure and poisonous food being sold under
false labels; and the law to establish the proper inspection of
meat.

The creation of the Bureau of Immigration.

The law limiting the working hours of employees and protecting
them in case of injury in their occupations.

The law against child-labor in the District of Columbia.

The reformation of the Consular Service.

The law to stop corporations from giving great sums of money for
political purposes at election time.

You will notice that these were not laws to enable a few rich men
to get richer still at the expense of the many; neither were they
designed to help dishonest labor leaders to plunder the employers.
They were aimed to bring about justice between man and man, to
protect the weak.

There was, when Mr. Roosevelt became President, a long standing
dispute between this country and England and Canada about the
boundary of Alaska. This was quickly settled by arbitration; our
rights were secured; and all possible causes of war were removed.