The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-26
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELTS CHARACTERISTICS VIEWED
BY MEN WHO MAKE INTERESTING COMPARISONS

&
.,,n the moment when he was forced
,p the public eye by appointment at
Washington, there has not been time
75sn he has been overlooked. Suisse
,esntly as Police Commissioner of New
FORK ne focused all eyes as he turned
h department. over and cleansed it in
manner which was thought impos-
s5s /
81 50 it has been through his, life, and |
4 ,,g as the browning event of lifetime !,
gent in doing things, comes the OPP
Z atunity which viii make him a de- /
j idye factor in the history of his coun- |
~ OF the many estimates which have |
q sppeared the following are two of the |
q most clever, as they present different |
g a5es. of the great character which |
4 marks the man. and win afford new
j rev points The first is a comparison
d the two characters, President Roose-
q yelt Of the Republic and Emperor Will
4 Jam of Germany. The second shows
4 the impression ne created upon an OBJ
q erver during a moment of excitement.
No other two men of the hour so much
4 'gsemble each1other in tempera ment and
4 some of their moral ard intellectual
4 qualities as do Theodore Roosevelt and
j Emperor William. A London editor de-
Jared in the heat of the recent presi-
q lsntial campaign, that, if Theodore
Do a.
s Of the HohenzolIerns, he would have be-
ome a William II; and, if the present
! German emperor had been born and bred
an American, he would have become
4 itizen, civil service reformer. police dis
) cipinarian, and martial Rough Rider"
q q everything but the accidental details.
While it would be grotesque to think
! Of Mr.. Roosevelt with crown on his
4 head, or of the emperor receiving dele
4 CATIONS at Oyster Bay, a study of the
{ rWO men in their striking similarities and
heir less striking contrasts may serve
10 throw some light on the two person
Iities which have so captured the i'm
sgination of their fellows. William is by
Jar the most interesting character in
Europe. and probably in world. Roose-
Gelt is less interesting, but the difference
due somewhat to difference of en-
rirOnment and position. The emperor
as more imagination and eloquence,
nore of that nameless thing called mag
-etsIn more natural gifts, and, possibly,
4 core versatility. But the two men travel
dong parallel lines in their heart
4 t5ughts and emotions a long distance,
m, withal, each embodies, in a remark
4 abe aegree, the aspirations of his coun-
b. Il one would know Germany at the
1 PRESENT moment, he must know its en-
ltrVr; Just as, to get at the spirit of
America one must feel the emotions of a
nan like Roosevelt. The latter may lose
4 hs great political influence on account
Oh blunders or mistakes, or party
4 ,hanges, but he and his country are in
the same mood. and are likely to remain
%.
Born within a year of each other, the
TWO men, the citizen and the monarch,
have, from the beginning, shown many
soi the same moral, mental, and physical
traits. The vice president is descended
8 rom eight generations of Rooseyelts,
'Fossed with an English strain, a long
4 me of aristocratic democrats, family
as royal in character and feeling as the
z Hohenzollerns, from Frederick the Great
DOWN. The American represents the
aower of Teutonic descent in this coun-
7ry; the emperor, the direct product of
ierman-English mixture. Their race
g ms are very similar.
4 AS DELICATE BOYS.
q The two boys were born physically deli
Nate High-spirited and nervous, each
ad TO be carefully trained, at home and
81 school. On account of the blunder OF
"A surgeon at his birth the noted en-
ieror's left arm remains shrunken and
seless to this day. His English mother,
n sho knew the great value of sturdy
L--i,7 al aiv1fn ind he RI
Fake to open air exercise almost before
e was out of the nursery Roosevelt
as out of doors at "a very early age,
S nth his sled and ball. He entered with
-sst into boyhood sports.
81 The youths began to read and take an
terest in life at a time when both Eu-
81 pe and America were swept by war.
he wars in Europe were deeply affect
81 the Prussian throne and the house of
ohenzollern. Bismarck was, from 1860
1879, working out definite plans for
ting Germany. The young prince,
81 no knew that some day he would come
S the throne, dreamed OF the imperial
NS onet that Bismarck was fast forging.
3S4 nile he was still under his mothers
'dance, he must, in his eager, inquisi-
83H manner, have asked her many ques-
"a as about war and the rumors of war
81 'Neen Prussia and Austria, and Aus
and Italy. Europe's tumult was thus
cradle of his present martial spirit.
n 70 man in America was more interest
81 u the fortunes of the Union than the
80 theodore Roosevelt. who gave lib
~ =! OF mis- means to sustain the armies
x TIE field His heart throbbed with
al every reverse to the Northern
~ or exulted at the news of victory.
younger Roosevelt was a witness of
ny martial scenes When he had
sned seven years of age, Petersburg
oeen blown up and Richmond had
III lie pored over the pictures of
events in ''Harper's Weekly" The
war was the first thing. outside of
MI he, that came into his young mind.
a" The blue armies and the starry
nd blue flag; he heardsthes drums of
UldieFs going TO and returning from
He had the temperament and
nag,nation to receive these impress
IN. WIN q vividness akin to that with
:. 'he young Prnssian crown prince
we outward visage OF war in Eu-
'AlLEL LINES IN ATHLETICS.
we see young William at Cassel
- -ssluin, being trained in much the
&zfs, manner that young Roosevelt was
~, AIMED at New York City high !
* si1o,. american boys. among them