Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-28
ROOSEVELT THEIR IDOL
Europeans Feel He Is Thr0ttling
America.
THANK HIM FOR 1T HEARTILY
Views Gathered Abroad by Col. Geo.
Harvey.
CHECKS OUR GREAT EXPANSION
Foreign Commercialism Loves the
President for the Harm He
Has Done at Home.
CHECKS OUR GREAT EXPANSION

Col. George Harvey, editor of Harpers
Weekly returned to New York yesterday
with Mrs. Harvey, Miss Dorothy Harvey
and Frederick A. Duneka, the latter also
of the Harper publications, after five weeks
spent In England and France. Col Harvey
said:
zone cannot remain abroad fortnight
without being forced to realize that Presi-
dent Roosevelt is far and away the most
popular man in the world. King Edward
and the kaiser are much loved and admired
respectively by their own peoples, but the
Presidents popularity is literally universal,
pervading all classes.
Royalty, leo by the kaiser himself. who
pronounces Mr.. Roosevelt the greatest of
American Presidents without exception, is
particularly DESTROYS of his reelection as
tending to indicate that, so far from being
doomed autocracy may still hold popular
favor, If the personality of the ruler be
sufficiently vivid and his acts shrewdly
beneficent. 1t is peculiarly pleasing sign
at this time, when wave of democracy
seems to be sweeping over Europe, to ap-
pear in the land whose dedication 10 per-
sonal liberty has caused much anxiety
in royal breasts for more than century.
ITO the keen-vsioned kaiser especially,
but also in lesser degree to all dull royalty
and apprehensive aristocracy, the portent
seems plain that even the most intelligent
segment of the human race now existing
may yet in considerable measure subordl-
nate self-government to popular idol Wor-
ship.
Commercialism Ardent.
mo less ardent in support of President
Roosevelt is the commercialism of England,
France and Germany. The panic of five
years ago among the business men of all
three nations over Americas trade expan-
sion was very real. Our concentration of
effort and superior methods seemed likely
to dominate an markets within ten years,
and New York was regarded as the certain
and almost immediate successor of London
as the financial center of the world.
But there is no longer any fear or even
talk of the once dreaded American invasion.
Impairment of credit has throttled Ameri-
can enterprise so effectually as to give our
competitors probably a score of years In
which to recover ground that seemed TO
have been lost forever Nowhere. not even
in our own haunts of populsm. was the
Presidents crusade against great Ameri-
can corporations so heartily welcomed as IN
England and Germany.
''None appreciated better than the busi-
ness men of those countries that brlcks
cannot be made without straw and that the
first requisite of successful enterprise Is
cheap capital The outcome of the Presi-
dents resolute action they knew to be in
evftable. but not in their most optimistic
moments did they foresee so quick real
ization of their fondest hopes.
t.Now that our greatest transportation
companies are unable to obtain sufnc1ent
money upon working terms to replace even
a single Pacific steamship lost upon the
rocks, British and German merchants con-
slider their eastern trade practically secure
and naturally regard our rapidly dlmlnlsh-
ing exports to the far east with the utmost
satisfaction.
Golden Goose Killed.
"The staggering blow administered by
the President to American railway securi-
uuit
almost to giee. The prosperous French
people 1t is well known, were on the verge
of diverting their immense surplus invest
ment funds from Russia to America; the
first large loan had been successfully nego-
tiated and others were we'll unoer way
when President Roosevelt, in the words OF
Lord Rothschild, killed the goose that was
laying the golden eggs.
"A score of years at least will be required
to restore the confidence that has been
shattered. Meanwhile the surplus funds
will be invested at home, and vertf1cation
of Mr.. Hills prediction that the federal
government will be compelled to finance our
railway building and thereby acquire VIZ
tual ownership is generally anticipated.
''All this is most gratifying to our COM
mercial and financial rivals. They behold
American progress halted by American
politics and revel in the vast opportunities
So Unexpectedly presented to them. Nat
urally, therefore, although for reasons quite
distinct from those of royalty, they are
application of his pregnant policies. Their
only fear is that some fine morning Mr..
Roosevelt may make the welkin ring with a
discovery OF Adam Smith.
Still more enthusiastic Is the third great
class comprising the socialists and an
archists. To them the name Theodore
Roosevelt has come TO mean, indeed. gift
of God. When Mr.. Roosevelt boldly con-
trasted men of wealth with socialists and
anarchists to the advantage of the latter
they foresaw the beginning of new era.
All Reformers With Him.
ITO the Incidental fact that he shaded
wealth with the word predatory they at
tach no significance. In their view all
wealth is predatory, and they quickly re-
called that In his original message to Con-
gress urging the reduction of 'swollGsl for
tunes the President made no qualification
or distinction. They readily assume, there
fore, that the word predatory is now en-
ployed less for the purpose of expressing
precisely the real intent than for policy's
sake in a sagacious attempt to accomplish
tangible results.
In any case they perceive a mighty ad-
vancement of their cause in the first open
and favorable recognition ever accorded
socialists and anarchists as a class en-
titled TO special consideration by one in
position of the highest authority.
There are, of course. subdivisions OF
these three great classes of foreign peoples,
but all idealists, preachers, sportsmen,
prize fighters. editors. writer's. philosophers
scholars, nature lovers, warriors. peace
makers animal killers. woman sufYragists,
civil service, tariff spelling and all other
varieties of reformers find something in
Mr.. Roosevelt's prismatic personality SUI
fic!cntly akin to hold their admiration and
devotion.
There is no doubt that IL our next ma
tIonal election could be determined by
European votes. Mr.. Roosevelt would be re-
chosen unanimously"