Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1905-12-09
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EDITORIAL COMMENT
OUR PRESIDENT.
W. c. Black, Editor

ONCE he became president the chief magistrate has tried about
- everything. He has bearded wolves and bears and cata-
mounts in their lars, he has climbed the glaciers of Colorado,
taken a dip under the sea in a submarine boat, blufed the yellow
fever IN New Orleans; been in a collision in the lower Mississippi
and faced an Atlantic gale off Hattaras. There does not seem
much left for him except a balloon excursion.
We did not mention his tushe with the trusts and railroads,
but he is holding his own with them, and that really tests the
fibre of a m more than either wolf or bear hunting. The
legends say that a famous hydra of old had many heads, that
when one was severed another sprang up in its place and the
HYDRA was the worlds terror. But Hercules w a not dis
couraged. He did not try to cut off heads but proceeded to
smash them with his club, and he did the monster up. 1t was
probably from that history that Mr.. Roosevelt got the idea Of
the efficacy of"the big stick" May he be prospered in his in
tentions to reduce things to a square deal.
In other lines he has done pretty well. He brought the great
coal strike to an adjustment; he was the urgent power behind
the men who pushed through the reclamation bill; he was a
little Providence to both Russia and Japan, when both were
about licked, but too proud to meet each other half way and
make an honorable treaty. For that his name is as well known
in Europe and the Orient as in our own1and; better known than
that of any other president, not excepting Washington, and his
acts have given new prestige to our republic. In sporting par
lance "he has been playing in the biggest kind of luck" ever since
he became president. The secret is that first, he is honest, and
second, he is not afraid. He has reached the highest place in his
country's gift a higher place than any other land could give, he is
not planning now for new honors, and is free to follow all the
high and generous instincts of his nature. The result is that in
stead of being exalted by the Office that he holds, he is exating
the office. Because of him thousand of men and women in the
south, who have held the north and the government i'll bitterness
for forty years, are feeling the bitterness melting from their
hearts. He has visited every region of the country except Alaska;
he is at home alike with bronchobusters and university pro-
fessors; at wolf hunt or in making a speech in a Sunday school;
in addressing a ministerial association or shoveing coal in the
hold of a steamer; in a cabinet meeting or on the bridge OF a
battle ship, facing a northeast hurricane on the stormy Atlantic.
If heis not the greatest of men, he has more kinds of greatness
than otner men, and he can bring out every faculty of his mind
with more fulness than any other man.
He is a model man for the youth of the country to pattern
after. The very wiseSt act of his life was when his education in
the schools being finished, he determined to 60 to the frontier and
to live and to learn how the poor and the unlearned go about
making a livelihood. In that way he learned more of his
country and his countrymen than he would ever have known
had he remained at home or gone to Europe. May he be long
spared to his co~untry,-Goodwin's Weekly.