Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-08

benjamin Harrison ....,. l so 81
Grover Cleveland ........ -
william Mckinley 49,. rs IS
There are some suggestions which
cannot use directly, A European am
bassador told me that he was glad the
old colonel of the rough riders, the once
assistant secretary of the navy, would
still be able To take the field in case
we have a war with Japan.
You will not need to go through a
maulng To find a Grant to win your
war"
a great southern Democratic senator
said TO me:
IF things go wrong in the next four
years the solid south will see that Theo-
dore Roosevelt puts them right again.
The American people will tolerate no
'shenanigan' unless they are helpless,
and they know they are moi helpless,
as long as Theodore Roosevelt is sound
In mind and body
GROVER CLEVELAND.
TUE attitude OF president the day
he leaves his high office and be-
comes a plain citizen of the United
states is one so peculiar that II requires
serious contemplation in the perspective
to get his proper relations TO the people
a large.
There is a vague but none the less
imperative feeling abroad in the land
that one who has occupied the great
office Of president holds In trust for
his follow citizens certain dignity
which In his conduct and manner of
life he Is bound TO protect against de-
tcrioratiou. Obedience to this obliga-
tion which can hardly be avoided, linz
its one who was once president In hts
choice Of an occupation and prescribes
for him only such work as Is In popular
Judgment not undignlied.
The American people arc the best
uooople in the world. and the honor and
respect with which they follow to his
retirement one who has served them in
the highest onioe within their gift H.
Illustrates tho innate nobility Of the
American character Tho truth Is that
our people so far from treating their
r0tirnd presidents simply ms relies OF
mast hOnorH. seem disposed not only to
heHtow upon thcm the honor and re-
surrt. hut 10 continue them I'm service
50 FAR ms 20 not Interfere seriously with
their untrammeled attention TO private
citizenship and their unrestrnlned re-
sumption OF the occupation OF everyday
ne.
EMPEROR or GERMANY
D RoFEssoR sCHIEMAN. eminent
i scientist and intimate friend OF
the emperor OF Germany IL permitted
TO quote his distinguished sovereign as
follows
"rhe mastery Of the problems OF his
country and the comprehension OF their
proportion ln the world scheme marks
~ Roosevelt as TAR too great Ia
be sacrificed 10 any misunderstanding
nf Ms aims ana usefulness on either
side of the Atlantic n he Is not "a
continue in his present relation 10 his
poorlc II w. tu hc hoped that ne WIN
return 10 II after the constitutional
pcrlrd ana In the meantime be ac-
corded tho support ~ his successor m
the completion OF those far reaching
reforms ON which he has set out"
EMPEROR or AUSTRIA
THE following Is the permitted ut
4 torrance ou Mr. Roosoyrlts future
made by the Emperor Franz Josef aud
transmitted by Mr. Francis Wahl.
president Roosevelt is a man Of en-
during character 1t is a pity he In
unwilling 10 hold office longer 1 could
wish that he would accept recollection,
pui such course being against his