Man With The Muck-Rak Speech

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In “The Man with the Muck-Rake” speech, Roosevelt elucidate the term muckrake; which mainly describes journalist who sought out to expose the evils and injustices of the Gilded Age before they destroy democracy. I believe, the purpose of this speech was to end the dishonest political attacks from journalists and guiding the public perspective toward honesty, sanity, and self-restraint. During this era, numerous reforms were taking place, for example, the new sanction laws in the meat industry (Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act) was created after the famous novel “The Jungle” portrayed about the filthy condition in Chicago’s meat packaging district and led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act of 1906. Roosevelt has a lot