Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-22
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT
A Character Sketch.
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BY FRAME BYM


Born in 1S5s-graduated from Harvard
College in iSSO-eiected to the New York
Assembly in Unsupported United
States Civil Service Commissioners in
disappointed president of the police
board of the City of New York in 1896
appointed assistant secretary of the
navy in 1897 resigned to take m
of the Rough Riders in 1S9S-elected gov
ernor OF New York in 1S98-nomiilated
for the Office Of vice-president of the
United States by the republican party in
l5Cc-lthis in brief is the history of the
man who is today the most Interesting
inquire in American public life. In 1904
the writer of current history will add to
this record an account of the election Of
Mr.. Roosevelt as president of the United
States. .
Theodore Roosevelt was fortunate in
his birth and training. His father was a
successful merchant as members of the
family had been for two hundred and
fifty years before him. The annals of
New York city are full of mention of the
Roosevelts. In times of peace they We're
merchants, bankers; trustees of charita-
BILE institutions; leaders in p~hilanthropic
movements. In time of war they were
no less active. They fought in the ranks
in the Revolutions; participated in the
war OF 1872 and lent valuable aid to the
Union in the trying years of the SOS.
Concerning his home training Mr.. Roose-
vet says:
II was brought up with the constant
injunction to be active and Industrious.
My father-all my people-held that no
one had a right to merely cumber the
Garth; that the most contemplate Of
created things is the ma who does moth
ing. l imbihed thei idea that l must work
hard, whether at making money or what
ever. The whole family training taught
me that l must be doing, must be work.
ing-and at decent work.
Put this statement with the one which
follows and you will have the keynote OF
Rooseveit'S success: an explanation of
the events which rave followed fast upon
each other since his entrance into pub
lie life nearly twenty ears ago. He was
asked one day what he would say to the
young men of New York City if he could
speak to them commandments:
DOCTRINES OF WORK.
"I'd order them to work. said he: "Id
try to develop and work out an ideal of
mine-the theory of the duty of the lei
sure class to the community. I have tried
ITO do it by example, and it is what I have
preached; first and foremost to be an
American, heart and soul, and to go in
with any person, needless of anything
but.that persons qualifications. For my
self, I'd work as quick beside Pat Dugan
as with the last descendant OF q PATRON;
1t literally makes no difference to me so
long as the work is good and the man is
III earnest. one CnlIS, L u IKE 10 teacl
the young man Of wealth that he who
has not got wealth owes his first duty to
his family, but ne who has means owes
his first duty to the state. It Is ignobie
to try to heap money on money. I would
preach the-doetrine of work to all. and to
the men of wealth the doctrine of unre-
munerative work.
These statements are indicative of the
character OF the man as will appear from
a study of his career.
Mr.. Roosevelt's personal appearance is
entirely In keeping with his character.
Heavy built, with determination in ev-
cry line of his countenance, and possess
ed of a nervous temperament, he looks a
born fighter. He has not always possess
ed such a physique. In his boyhood he
was sickly. With the same spirit which
has since driven him into conflicts with
scourdrels in politics, he began to battle
against disease. He took up athletic
training early. BY the time he was ready
to enter college ne could hold his own
with the average college athlete. When
his college days were over he came west
and for soma years spent the summers In
the Dakotas and Montana. He took as
naturally to western ways as a duck
takes to wster." His life on the plains
and in the mountains hardened his mus
Giles and made him what he is today a
vigorous man, strong both in brain and
Drawn. Theodore Roosevelt owes much
to the west and loves it too, just as he is
loved by it.
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