Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-27

soldiers who remember the calumnles
of Grant and Lincoln, when you were
boys in blue? What do you think OF
that, young women and young men in
whose veins runs the blood of the faith
ers and mothers who in spite of the
ISLANDERS We're true to Lincoln and to
Grant, and therefore to the nation?
Theodore Roosevelt child Who
is 1t that Is realizing the century, old
dream of the American people that the
Pacific and Atlantic oceans should be
joined? Who is 1t that is accomplish
ing what no president before could ac-
complish and is now making the Pana-
ma canal fact? 1t is Theodore Roose-
welt. Was this the work OF child 2
What Roosevelt Has Done.
who was it that compelled the
creation OF a new department of gov
eminent, devoted to commerce and Ia
Dor, upon which the progress of the
American people depends? It was
Theodore Roosevelt Was that the work
Of child?
Who was 1t, when the American
people were freezing for want of fuel.
brought together warning capital and
Id DOE NHOSG SOllItlCl lAou SAColCu 'iAS
coal famine Of 1902? 1t was mighty
task to compel the most forceful men
in the world Of capital and the ablest
men in the world of labor to cease hos
tilities that the common people might
not suffer. Yet Theodore Roosevelt did
that. Was that the work Of Child 2
Who was it that brought to their
knees the kings of the railway world -
kings in reality far more than the tin
sci monarchs of Europe that wear their
foolish crowns-and in the name Of the
American people forced needed railway
legislation over their tremendous re-
sistance? 1t was Theodore Roosevelt.
Was that the work of 'child?'
who was 1t that again, in the name
OF the peoples health and happiness
ltriumphed over the greatest combina-
ton Of unrighteous wealth the world
has ever seen, and in the name of the
people, caused the passage of the his
toric law for pure food and healthful
meats? 1t was Theodore Roosevelt.
Was that the work of a "child?"
"Who was it that laid down new
and modern doctrine for the honor and
steadiness of all the nations of the
Western Hemisphere doctrine which
reviled at the time Is now In the pro-
cess OF acceptance and to which the
whole western world Is rapidly adjust
ing itself? 1t was Theodore Roosevelt.
Was that the work of "child?"
tWho was 1t that in the bloodiest II
briefest of the worlds greatest wars,
when millions were in battle and the
seas ran blood. took Russia and Japan
by the hand and ended their awful con-
flict? 1t was Theodore Roosevelt. Was
that the work Of "child?"
Were all the nations mistaken then,
when the rulers Of every country on the
globe, voicing the sentiment of their
peoples, showered congratulations upon
our American president? Were their
messages foolish words of felicity ITO a
child?
If child he be, God give us more
such children to serve and to bless
this Nation God grant that such stock
shall not run out God grant that for
every Washington period there shall be
a Washington; for every Jackson
period Jackson; for every Grant and
Lincoln period q Lincoln and Grant;
for every Roosevelt period Theodore
Roosevelt.
MAY the All Father who has
watch over US forever and give us
watch us over US foreevr, and give us
more politicians" like the Father of
his Country; more "despots" like Old
Hickory; more "tyrants" like the Rail-
splitter; more ''men on horseback like
the immortal one whose birthday this
occasion celebrates; more children like
that strong, brave man who, strong
with the strength OF the American mil
lions, presides so firmly over their des
TIMES merely because he SO faithfully
executes their will