Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06
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President Roosevelt is again at the
national capital, after the most exten-
sive and notable journey ever made by
a chief executive of the United States.
From the beginning to the close the
trip was an ovation. manifesting to an
extraordinary degree the popular respect
for the great Office Of president Of the
republic and of esteem for its incum-
bent. Mr.. Roosevelt has been greeted
during the past sixty days by millions
of his countrymen and he has received
from all the most cordial and respectful
consideration. He has spoken hundreds
Of times, always commanding the ear
nest attention Of his audiences. No
word has beer uttered by anyone in his
presence to give him o%ffense, no n has
shown toward him a feeling of enmlty
or even dislike.
That President Roosevelt has
strengthened himself in the general pop
ular regard and confidence is not to be
doubted. That he has learned much
that is valuable from this personal con-
tact with the people is equally certain.
He is as firm a believer as was Mr.. Nc
Kinley in the policy Of keeping close to
the people and it is a policy the adj
vantages of which to the head of the
nation cannot easily be overestimated.
At indianapolis the president said that
the thing which had struck him more
than all else wherever he had been is
the fundamental unity of our people.
He found them united for national
growth and progress, all believing in the
great destiny Of their country and ready
and willing to assume whatever obliga-
tons and responsibilities the working
out Of that destiny may require Of them.
Having met the people from the Allan
tic to the Pacific coasts, the president
said he failed to see chow any man
can look at them and not see that in
evitably they belong to the expanding
and not to the stationary races of man.
kind" The latter class are certainly
not to be found in any great numbers in
the west, whose people are in accord
with the view of Mr.. Roosevelt that our
nation must play a great part in the
world and cannot help doing so.
In the many addresses made by the
president during his trip there has been
much for the thoughtful consideration
of the American people. They have
been free from partisanism and have
appealed to the practical and the patri.
otto instincts. Cultivation of the higher
ideals of citizenship, obedience to law
and loyalty to the government have
been urged. Repeatedly the president
has said that this is a government of
liberty through the law and that all
must have equal justice under the law.
One Of his strongest utterances is this:
This is not and never shall be a gov.
eminent of ~plutocracy. This is not and
never shall be a government of a mob
1t Is a government in which no man is
to be permitted either to. domineer over
the less well off or to plumber the better
Off. 1t is a government in which each
man is to be guaranteed his rights and
in return for which it is to be seen that
he does not wrong his fellow. The SUI
preme safety of our country is to be
found in a fearless and honest admins
tration Of the law of the land"
There will be a general sense Of graft
f~cation that the chief executive ha:
got back safely to the seat of govern
ment, with improved vigor, to take W
whatever duties await him.