Those who celebrate Teddy Roosevelt should remember his acts set the precedent for massive federal land grabs in the West.And he promoted American involvement in unjust war,i.e. the Spanish-American war.
Later ,Wilson got us into WWI while the progressives of the time weakened states by changing the Senate election process and instituting the income tax.Of course the tax was to pay for a war the US shouldn't have fought. Like the telephone tax was to pay for the Spanish-American War;that temporary tax lasted a hundred years.And we have a huge national debt due to more un-needed wars. Progressives of the late 1800s pushed for more government involvment to save the people from the effort of making good decisions in their daily lives.. Progressives,modern liberals,communists,enviromentalists,global warming nuts,professional politicians , and all the like want money and power over everyone else.
You get it! Few conservatives do.
Government schooling is evil and it was evil from its very first day.