Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-09

he Is capable of may be his choice
Pennsylvania has right 10 demand the
nomination of Senator Knox. tnan whom
no higher type of statesman has risen
above the political horizon of Pennsyiva-
MIA in fifty years.
Representative John DalzeH OF
Pennsylvania.
Mr. Roosevelt should occupy some posi-
ton where he would find exercise for his
remarkable executive abilities and for MS
power o. initiative. Among other posi-
tons that he might I'LL 1t seems 10 M
that he would make a splendlC governor
general of the Philippines.
Gen. James T. McCleary of Mime
sofa.
One of the great enterprises initiated
by Mr. Roosevelt and with which his
name will forever be associated is the
construction of the Panama canal. Such
construction requires technical knowledge
and directive power The tecnnlcai
knowledge could well be furnished by per
sons who are engineers by profession IL
would seem that an honorable and con-
genial work for Mr.. Roosevelt would be
that of directing In the completion OF the
Panama canal.
Abraham L. Lawshe of Indiana.
President Roosevelt is young man
and a valuable man. lie should not be
permitted to retire from public life. The
country needs him. I think that his
home state. New York. would make no
mistake in sending him to the United
states Senate. There are many important
matters which he has advocated which
will be discussed in the Senate. There
is tho Philippine question. the building
of the Panama canal the increase OF
the strength of the navy and many other
questions of great Importance President
Roosevelt would be valuable man IN
the Senate. l repeat that my sentiments
are that he is too young man ana TOO
valuable q man to be retired from pubic
life The people know him and believe
in him. and where there is confidence
there is strength.
Henry Litchfeld West, Commission
er of the District Of Columbia.
IF II would not exile him from tine United
States | should like to see President
Roosevelt placed in charge of the work
on the Panama canal. 1t should be called
the Roosevelt canal. just as the Suez
canal Is associated with the name of De
I.aSScps.
Scott C. Bone. Editor Washington
Herald.
I should say Mr.. Roosevelt might most
profitably be kept i'll his present position
four years more.
Charles A. Edwards. Secretary of
the Democratic Congressional
Committee.
would like to see President Roosevelt
elected United States senator from New
York where he will receive what Is
coming TO him. Those people In the
Senate are very brainy, and they will
show him a few things which he has
not learned during his occupancy of the
presidential chair.
p. v. De Graw, Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General
If President Roosevelt will not take the
presidency again. i think he is entitled
to assume any position he may name. His
record i'm public life certainly entities HIM
To this much.
Walter Wellman, Correspondent and
Explorer.
When President Roosevelt steps down
from the chair there is one great task
to which he can lay his hands with dig
nifty. and that is the Panama canal. He
is the very man for the place.
Edward W. Box.
The position 1 would like to see Theo-
dore Roosevelt assume after he leaves
the presidency is that position which he
will choose for himself.
William n. Hoffman.
There are many tasks awaiting such
able hands. but the first one to my mind
Is the rescuing Of the country's medium
Of exchange from the hands Of the Shy
locks who fatten like vampires on our
legitimate productive industries. First.
paper. every gold piece. belongs to the
government and is put forth without in
terest as medium OF exchange. What
right has any man, men or Set of men
organized into IA bank to hold that money
out of the currents of commerce and in
dustry unless paid from 6 per cent to
: 12O per cent for the use of it by the pro-
ducers of wealth, who must have a me-
dunn of exchange? Our money power is
part of a world conspiracy. centuries old
and Lombard bred. 1t Las no economic
moral right to exist. Theodore Roose-
welt knows the relations of money, public
and bankers: the people Of the country
will trust him to do their blacksmithing
If he will but brave the dragon
Frank II. Hitchcock, First Assistant
Postmaster General.
President Roosevelt would a.orn any
position he might accept. but I have no
idea what he has in mind as to his fu-
ture after leaving the White House. .e
is entitled to good rest first. but rest
with him means merely a change of ac-
tivitits.
William E. Curtis.
Theodore Roosevelt should and will
succeed Thomas Collier Platt as a MEM
Der Of the United States Senate March
a. 1909. and his first speech In that body
VIII be in opposition to executive interior
ence in legislation
Alvor de Lima.
Since President Roosevelt. has made any
consideration Of a third term impossible
for his friends. the world is. of course,
Such is the size of his public Iigure that
anything that he may do will be a con-
Germ for the world at large. There is a
feeling in the United States that a man
Is merely projected from the state or city
IN which he has his base. Often men who
are the ablest in Congress, failing of
election at home through some small in
trigues or local policy. are cut off from
national service. The President Is a New
York man and We hear talk Of his being
governor of New York again or senator
from New York. There is bigger work
for him TO do in several obvious WAYS
n Queer Excuse
Capt. Pritchard of the Mauretania said
the other day of strange sea custom:
All of have our customs we
Welsh have certain customs. you Ameri-
cans have certain others. and If ours