Chronologically first in a series of four volumes tracing President Theodore Roosevelt’s train trips across the continental United States, this edition follows the pattern of the author’s other three volumes in constructing a first person diary of the President’s tours of the New England and a portion of the Mid-South and Midwest states in the late summer and early fall of 1902, in a fashion similar to ex-President Roosevelt’s accounts of his trips to Africa and South America. As with the other three volumes in the series, no attempt has been made here to paraphrase or interpret the sources used in creating these accounts of President Roosevelt’s 1902 New England, Mid-South and Midwest tours. Rather, the author’s approach is to provide the reader with contemporaneous facts, speeches and other relevant information, and then allow the reader to arrive at his or her own conclusions regarding the merits of each of the three journeys. The title to this volume was selected to illustrate the central message President Roosevelt had for his audiences throughout all three of the train trips described in this volume. The President not only preached a message of “good citizenship” throughout these three journeys, but he was also always quick to point out the very same qualities he was finding in people of the cities where he visited.