Arizona republican., 1898-11-14
ROOSEVELT AS A BloGRAPAER
Tn Which His Own Convictions Are
 % Prominent.

pOTlIOuS OI the VOlQmo are
 those which give incidentally the DO
 litical and sociological views of tht author. As the volume is unfortunate ly not in every public library. quota tions from lt may be of interest to
 many readers.
 The Morrises were restless, adven- turous men. Of cratic temper and strong intellect" Such man Roose- velt himself is admitted to be by his political opponents. The following is almost prophetic Of 1898: They 1.-the Americans in the revolution1 set tied once for all that hereafter the people of English stock should spread at will over the worlds waste spaces, keeping all their old liberties and win ming new ones.'
 Speaking Of the trace strains in our nationality he says: "It is no doubt true that we are in the main an off, shoot of the English stem, and cous- ins to our kinsfoik of Britain we per- haps may be; but brothers we certainly are not"
 "Columbia's president was a rea1 old wfne-bibbing Tory parson."
 '.The people welcomed the proposal to issue bills of credit on Lhe theory that it would make money mcra plen- ty,' our revolutionary fathers being, unfortunately, not much wiser or more honest in their ways of looking at the public finances than we ourselves, in spite of our state repudiators, national greenbackers and dishonest silver men,
 ''The loyalists many of them were honest in their convictions and it is unfair to brand the Tory with an unde- served stigma
 For mobs, Morris, like ether clear haa 6od 411 T dislike and contempt"
 'The timid good are never an ele- Inent of strength in community"
 Some people are always willing to face what may be called a staved-off sacrifice, and promises to pay in the future what they can but will not pay in the present come under this head"
 Morris, even thus early. showed the breadth Of his far-seeing patriotism; he was emphatfcally an American first, a New Yorker next; the whole tone of his mind was thoroughly national"
 When the French court declared in our favor the worslt was already over"
 American counsels were divided. The leaders of the revolution had to goad the rank and file into line Had the Americans of 1T76 been united, and had they possessed the stubborn, un- yielding tenacity and nigh devotion to an ideal shown by tie north, or tks heroic constancy and matcnless valor shown by the south, in the civil war, the British would have been driven off the continent before three years were over''
 Washington was the greatest Amer lcan. Lincoln alone is worthy to stand even second"
 ''They had the samz illogical fear Of the executive that the demagogues of today (and some honest but stupid people as welD profess to feel for a standing army"
 The militia were very insubordi- nate and of most fickle temper "Ssark actually marched off his whole force the day before the battle of Saltwater"
 The shoddy contractors of the civil war had plenty or predecessors in the revolution
 ITO Lafayette America owes as much as to any Of her own children, for his devotion to us was as disinter- eSted and sincere as it was effective"
 Both dsmagogue and debtor when they clamored for laws which would relieve the latter meant laws which would enable him to swindle his credi- tors"
 MT. Morris was "the foundation of cur national coinage He introduced the system of decimal notation, invent 1 ed the word cent and nationalized the already familiar word dollar
 Morris writes: T think She youth of every free civilized country should be i educated in it.
 Speaking of Spain Roosevelt says: Her fear of us was perfectly justifi- 1 able, for the greatest part of our pres eHt territory lies within what were Spanish limits a hundred | years ago" Since writing these words Roosevelt has aided in relieving Spain | of more of her unhappy territories.
 "Re (Morrisj would have dismissed l with contemptuous laughter the ideas 0f those Americans who at the present day believe that Anglo-SaXon democ- racy can be applied successfully to a half savage negroid people in Hayti."
 ''The extreme doctriraires, who are fercest in declaiming in favor of free dom are in reality it's worst foes. When liberty becomes license, some form of power is not far distant"
 ''The American statesmen were to free themselves from the tyranny of man; but they had not the reverence felt by their fathers for their fathers God" Their theory Of government was a very high one; but they understood perfectly that it had to be accommo- lated to the shortcomings Of the age .itizer"
 Some Of tIrsir hard headed common sense is shared by their descendant, he gallant colonel Of the Rough Riders.
 "Tha federalists fell from power be- cause they could. not learn the one great truth taught by Jefferson, that in America a statesman should trust the people"
 Morris, keen, masterfu1 mind, his far sighitedness and the force and Of his reasoning, were all narred by his incurable cynicism and 1eep-rooted distrust of mankind"
 We were forced to take all other nations. whether dead CT living, as warnings, not examples"
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