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THEODORE ROOSEVELT 111 during Mr. Roosevelt s second term, significant chiefly in the number of them which provide for arbitration and in the fact that they are so numer ous because our points of contact with the rest of the world have increased so rapidly since the Spanish War of 1898 apart from these, Mr. Roosevelt s second term is marked strongly by three main trends of policy : He did not wish corporations and financiers to be hobbled., but to be properly harnessed. He did not wish the laboring man to be a pam pered pet, but to be treated as a human being by those who employed him. He did not wish our waterways and other natu ral resources (including children) to be disused or misused, but to be cherished and developed for the benefit of the present and the future. If to these three leading subjects of concern to Mr. Roosevelt, be added the Panama Canal, our relations with South America, and the Army and Navy, most of what was important during his sec ond Administration will be included and classified. His cabinet, which underwent many changes dur ing the four years, stood thus on March 6, 1905: Secretary of State, John Hay; Secretary of the Treasury, Leslie M. Shaw; Secretary of War, Wil liam H. Taft; Attorney-General, William H. Moody; Postmaster-General, George B. Cortel- you; Secretary of the Navy, Paul Morton; Secre-