El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-14


street. There had arisen . contention
a. TO whether the factory inspector die
his duty by the sweatsbops or not, and
from the testimony lie was unable u
decide. So he came down from Albany
| TO zee for himself. II was swelterlnR
hot day when we made tour OF the
stewing tenemerts on the down town
east eide. / doubt IL any other gov
ernor that ever was would attempt 1t.
know that none ever did. But he never
! shirked one of the twenty houses we had
marked out for explorations. He ex-
amined the evidence In each, while
the tenants wondered no the stranger
WAS who took so much intere, In their
affalrs: and as the result be was able TO
mark out q course for the factory ms
pector that ought to double and treble
the efficiency of his Office and bring
untold relief to q hundred thousand
tenement-house workers-if IL 10 fol-
lowed when Roosevelt is no longer In
Albany. That will be our end Of IL: TO
see to it that he did not labor in vain =.
HOW HE ENJOYS WORK
That is Roosevelt as / saw him daily
during those good years when things
We had hoped for we're done. There
stands upon my shelves q row OF books,
more than a dozen iu humber, begin
ming with the Naval War of 1872, :"
WRITER when he was scarcely out Of
college, and yet ranking as an author
ity, both here and abroad, including
the four stout volumes OF The Wiz
ming of the West" and ending with
his 'Roughriders, the picturesque
account of that picturesque regiment
In the last war, which testify to his un
tiripg energy as . recorder Is we'll as
maker of history. The secret of that
IL the story OF the police force and the
sweat-shops over again: his enjoyment
of the work. II 1 were to cum the
man and his achievements up in a
sentence, 1 think should put it that
way. But that would not mean an &c =
cident of the Dutch and Huguenot and
Irish blood that go to make up bis
heredity. 1t would mean Of itself An
achievement
Theodore Roosevelt was born q puny
child. he could not keep up with the
play OF other children, or learn go
easily as they. he had to make him.
self what he is, and with the indomit-
able will that char acterized the boy as
1t does the man, he set about IL. He
became at once an athlete and
studeDs. When he joins the two, he lie
at his best. His accounts Of life on the
Western plains, of hunting IL the Bad
Lands of Dakota, where he built his
ranch on the banks OF the Little Mic
souri,, are written out of the mans
heart.
RoosEVELT'S PERSONALITY.
Mr.. Roosevel.'s receu, pr otest against
the impertinent intrusion of the camera
iend upon the seclusion Of his home
life At Oyster Bay was perfectly char
acteristic of him, and of his way OF cay
ing the right thing at the right time.
The whole country applauded IL. In
his home Mr.. Roosevelt ceases to be
governor OF the Empire State, ana be-
comes husband aud father, the compsn-
ion OF his children, who treat him like
their big, overgrown brother. His love
for children, especially for those who
have Tot SO good q time as some Others,
lie be instructive Is bis championship oil
all that needs . lift. / doubt II he is
aware OF IL himself. BE does not re-
cogbize as real sympathy what be feels
rather Is a sense of duty. Yet have
seen him, when school child crowded
around the rear platform Of The train
from which he had been making COM
psigp speeches, TO shake hands, catch
the eye OF poor little crippled girl 10
patched frocs, who WAS making
frantic but hopeless efforts TO reach
him In the outskirts OF the crowd, and
pushing aside ell the rect, make way
for Ter TO the gre at smsZement of the
cuTicO OaTllDRc IN tine lrOpt row.
TYPICAL AMERICAN.
Theodore Roosevelt Re q man, with
red blood In his veins; a healthy pa
triot, with no clsp-trap jinRoism about
him. but rugged belief In America
and It's mission; an intense lover of
country and flag, vigorous optimist,
believer Ia men, who looks for the
good in them and finds IL. Practical
Impair tisansh hip: loyal, trusting, aud
gentle as friend: unselfsb, mode ST
as q woman, cleanhsnded and clean
hearted, ard honest to the core. In
the splendid vigor of bis young man
hood he lie the knightl.ess figure In
American politics to-day, the q test
exponent Of bic couptry's idea. and
the model for its young eons who are
coming to take up the task be set
them. For their sake / an willing
TO give him up and set him where they
can all see and strive to be like him.
So We shall have little need of bother
ing about boss rule and misru.e here
after, We shall farm out the job Of
rupning the machine no longer; We
shall be able to run IL ourselves.
When It comes to that, the vice.
presid ebcy is not going to kill rheo-
dore Roosevelt. 1t will take a good