Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-11-28

COMMENT IN FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS
ON THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT.
English, FrenchS ia Canadian Critics
Discuss the Dinner Incident
IS n
and Appointments.

| From the Literary Digest. ~
President Reoseselt's personal character
and his course in the Booker T. Washing
| ton incident and in the appointment of
| democrats to office in the south, continue
| to excite q good deal of comment in the
| European press. particularly in the jour-
| mails Of Great Britain. Ivan Strannik con-
| tributes to the Revue Bleue of Paris re-
view of Mr.. Poosevelt's principal books,
| and pays particular attention to the vol
umes into which 1.-The strenuous hunter,
man of letters and public ser1ant has
| written himself" Commenting on the vol
ume, 1.-The Rough Riders" the reviewer
| says, p" 49,
Theodore Roosevelt has always shown
an excessive indivfdualism which ia q
most excellent quality when rightly exer-
| cised, and a most dangerous one when not
| under proper restraint. What will
be the channel into which this tremendous
| energy will now be turned? - -. We be-
| lieve 1t will be we'll braked-in. - There
| is, at any rate, no room for doubt, If we
| may judge by recent happenings, that he
| will put to the best use he knows all of
his splendid native energy. and that he will
| do this with all the audacity which has
| heretofore characterized his unique per-
Sonality. --,----,
| Man Of Many Parts.
The Review of Reviews of London con-
| tains an anonymous character sketch of
| President Roosevelt, the opening sentence
| of which is as follows: Take Mr. Glad
| stone. Mr.. Rhodes, Lord Charles Beresford
| and John Burns, boil them down until you
| can get the residual essence into an Amer
| ican-Dutchman, and you have something
| like the new President of the United
| States OF the four ingredients suggest
| ed, the writer Of the sketch continues, the
| largest proportion should be that Of Mr..
Gladstone. Inexhaustible physical vitality
or,1 1lvy fr,ax rI,p,,.,
fecundty, Unsuitable activity. a voracious
appetite for books, "a propensity to sonor-
Gus moral discourse upon subjects political
and social, and semi-religious philoso-
| phizing about things ideal and otherwise"
| the faculty of being the natural and
perennial storm-center of every movement
| in which he takes part, "all the splendid
| pugnacity of the English liberal leader
these make the American President "a
close replica Of the grand old man." In
| other respects. however, Mr.. Roosevelt is
| "as unlike Mr.. Gladstone as mortal man
| can be- and this fact is nowhere more
| evident than in the Rhodesan expansionst
| point of view Of the American chief magis-
trate." He is 'ever and all for giving
| civilization a timely lift upon the powder
| cart" The Beresford element is conspicu-
Gus in the same kind of venturesome dare
deviltry Cat Santiago which led Lord AL
cester to signal Well DONE Condor and
which Lord Charles afterward displayed
when engaged in the forlorn hope which
sailed in penny steamboats to the relief of
khartoum." In popular estimation in the
United States, sayA tho writer, he com
| mands the same kind of admiration which
Lord Charles Beresford, almost alone of
fighting men possesses in Britain.
Southern Amendments.
The St. James Gazette sof London is par
ticularly pleased withe.the Presidents ap-
pointment of southern democrats to office
1t says
'It would be necessary to go back a long
way in American history to find a declara-
ton Of policy fraggPt With such tremen,
this short speech tto the South Carolina
deputation) of Mr.. @Rooseselt's.. 1t is indeed
strange that it caritbe thought remarkable
for the head of-aS great nation to declare
for public positions. But 1t seems to be
recognized in America shat these words
when used by Mr., Roosevelt mean that he
intends to cut at tfe, root oftfle Spoils sys-.
TEN which for two generations has gov
erned the political machinery Of the repub-
lie. If Mr.. Roosevelt succeeds In the
policy here outlined-if he is able to estab-
lish the principle, that the public service is
to be filled by the best men without regard
| to party excepting of course the highest
executive offices in the states), and to liber-
ate the executive from the dominion of the
wrepullers-he will have conferred on his
country the greatest service since the aboli-
ton of slavery. But If the machine
grinds Mr.. Roosevelt instead of Mr.. Roose-
| Neit lue HdCLlHe II WILL ue d ioHS
time before another deliverer will arise
with the courage the strength to deal a
! similar stroke for freedom in the political
| system of the United States"
| 1t is noble enterprise, says the Standard
| of London, worthy of Mr.. Roosevelt's
courage and talent, and EnglShmen will
watch his progress with sympathetic admi-
| ration, and wish him all success in the diff
ficult undertaking" 4 49, as..-..,..
His Dutch Descent.
The Evening Telegram Of Toronto is con-
fident that President Roosevelt will not per-
| NIT his Dutch blood to influence his official
conduct as President. 1t says:
| 'All the roots Of Roosevelts pride are In
| the soil Of the United States. Sympathy
| with his remote ancestors in Holland will
never control his actions in the White
House No man in public life has spoken
as loudly as Theodore Roosevelt in detesta-
| ton of the hyphenated American. Irish
| Americans; Dutch-Americans, German
| Americans, Polish-Amerieans have all been
denounced by Roosevelt. The name Of
American unadorned has been good enough
| for the man who Is now President of the
| United states, and he has mo Dutch blood
| that can be brought to the boilng-point by
| appeals on behalf of the embattled Beers
| Ihe Witness of Montreal believes that the
| fresloents action in entertaining a negro
| at the White House has shown him to be
| the greatest President since Lincoln. The
| path duty In national politics, it remarks,
mas otten been the way of the cross.
But as Tennyson said in extolling We'll
| l1ngton, Not once or twice in our fair is
| lands story, the path of duty was the way
| TO glory. Lincoln was a martyr to that