Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-09-15

pieeeoh'9' AleCeuentS! 1t mas DeeH
Roosevelt's business to make them
most OF MS time. But is there anyone
today q VINO thinks he set that one
wrong? Certainly no one who with me
saw the army come home. 1t did not
come day too soon.
When he had done his work for the
ships and resigned his office to take
the field. the croakers shouted that at
last he had made the mistake of resign
ing to get into scrap. His men didn't
think 50 when he lay with them in
the trenches before Santiago, sharing
his last biscuit with them. They got to
know him there and to love him.
know what 1t cost him to leave his
SICK wife and babies. | wanted to keep
him at home, but | saw him go with
| pride. because l knew he went at the
call or duty. He thought the war Just
and right. He had done what he
I could TO bring it on as the only means
! of stopping the murder in Cuba and
he went to do his share of the fighting
as matter of right and of example to
the young men to whom he was type
OF the citizen and the patriot. As that
type when he came home we made him
our government in New York state We
ran him on the pledge of his record
! the pledge of honesty, manhood and
courage; and he kept the pledge
shall let some one else tell the story
Of that. Just let me recall the last trip
we took together, because it was 50
much like the old days in Mulberry
street. There had arisen a contention
as to whether the factory inspector
| did his duty by the sweat shops or not
| and from the testimony he was unable
| to decide. So he came down from AL
bany to see for himself. 1t was a swell
tering hot day when he made tour
OF the stewing tenements on the down
town east side. I doubt if any other
governor that ever was would attempt
/ it. | know that none ever did. But
he never shirked one Of the twenty
houses we had marked out for explora-
ton. He examined the evidence in
each, while the tenants wondered who
| the stranger was who took so much
interest in their affairs; and as the re-
suit he was able to mark out a course
for the factory inspector that ought to
| double and treble the efficiency OF his
| office and bring untold relief to a hun
dred thousand house workers
/ IL it is followed when Roosevelt is no
| longer in Albany. That will be our end
Of it; to see to it that he did not labor
! in vain.
| That is Roosevelt as ! saw him daily
| during those good years when things W.
had hoped for We're done, There stands
| upon my shelves row Of books more
| than dozen in number, beginning with
| the Naval War of 1872, " written when hr
was scarcely out Of college, and Yet
1 ranking as an authority. both here and
| abroad. including the four stout volumes
/ Of The Winning Of the West" ana end
| ing with his 'Rough-riders, " the pictur-
! eSque account Of that picturesque regi-
/ ment in the last war, which testify to his
/ untlrlng energy as q recorder as we'll as a
maker Of history. The secret Of that Is
/ the story Of the police force and the
\ sweat-shops over again: his enjoyment ~
| the work. II | were 70 sum the man and
| MS achievements up in 4 sentence | think
should put Il that way. But that would
| not mean an accident Of the Dutch ana
| HuguenOt and Irish blood that 60 to
| make up his heredity. 1t would mean of
| welt was born a puny child. He could
not Keep up with the play Of other chill
| dren, or learn 50 easily as they He had
| 70 make himself what he is. and with the
| lndomitable will that characterized tha
boy as 1t does the man, he set about it.
| He became at once an athlete and a stu
| dent. When he joins the two. he Is at his
| best His accounts Of life on the West
erh plains. Of hunting in the bad lands
r1nCh
| the banks Of the Little Missouri are
written out OF the mans heart
Mt. NooSeVelts recent protest against
! the impertinent intrusion of the camera
| tiend upon the seclusion Of his home life
| at oyster bay was perfectly Characteristic
| Of him, and Of his way of saying the right
thlhg at the right time. The whole Coun-
| FE applauded II. In his home Mr. RoOse-
welt ceases 70 be governor Of the Emuirc
state. and becomes husband and father
tne companion Of his children. who treat
J I,
| MS love for children, especially for those
VINO nave not 50 good a time rs some 9th
erS Is as instructive as his champion
| snip Of all that needs lift | doubt If he
| Is aware Of ii himself. He does not re-
coSnize as real sympathy what he feels
rather as sense Of duty. Yet | have
seen MN. when school children crowded
around the rear platform OF the train
from which he had been making cam
palGn speeches. TO shake hands. catch the
eye oil poor little crippled girl in a
patched fr0Ck. who was making frantic
| but hopeless efforts to reach him IN tbe
outs kirts Of the crowd, and pushing asidf
an ,he =, resi-. make a way for her to the
IN me front row. And on the trip home.
on me last night of the canvass of 1905
Mneh we were at dinner in his private
| ~, puSy reasoning up ma jOrIties | saw
MN get up TO greet the engineer Of the
train, who came in his oVcratlS and hInuSe
@ snake hands, with such pleasure as |
hdd not seen him show in the biggest
meeting We had had. 1t was coinCi-
dence and an omen that the name of ibe
engineer ot that victorious trip was
That bent Of his is easily enough cx-
pIalned There hangs in his study ~
oyster bay, apart from the many tro-
phles Df the chase. the picture Of A man
Win a strong. bearded face
nat is my father" said Mr.. Roosc-
YET. He was the finest man / ever
knew He was a merchant. well-to-do |
drove his tOur-in-hand through the mark
ahu enjoyed life immensely. lie had such |
a good time, and with cause, for he Vas
so9d man. remember seeing him 60 |
me GOWN Broadway, staid and respect |
APIS business man that he was. with a |
p3gr Httle SICK kitten in his coat-pocket, |
"nIch h had picked up in the street
ne elder Theodore Roosevelt was 4 |
man with the same sane and practical in |
tereSt IN his fellow man that his son has !
SHOWN lie was the hacker of Charles |
Lorlng Brace in his work Of gathering the |
forgotten waits from the Citys streets |
ana ot every other sensible charity III his |
gay. Dr. Henry Field told me once that
ne always occupied as he was with the
MANAGEMENT Of a successful business on |
principle gave one day of the SIX to visit
ing the poor in their homes Apparpntlv
the analogy between father and san
might be carried farther to include even
the famous rOund-rObin; for upOn tho
same authority. ii was the elder Thee
dore Roosevelt who went to Washington
after the first Bull Run ana warned pro-
ldent Lincoln that he must get RID &c
simon Cameron as secretary IF war u-ith |