The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-01-22
PHRASES MADE
BY ROOSEVELT.
President influences Daily life
Of the Country.
He Can Converse With Equal In
telligence With Cowboy, Prize
fighter or Historian.

James Bryce wrote that the House
of Commons seemed empty after Glad.
stone had left It. And Washington
won't seem the SAME the city af-
ter March A., when 1t will no longer
feel the restless and ceaseless activi-
ty of Theodore Roosevelt.
Mr.. Taft is expecsed 10 make great
President, but ne doesn't happen 10 be
interested IN all known phases Cd
human activity. 1t isn't supposed chat
ne will be able 10 converse with equal
enthusiasm with cawboys natuIaldsts
prize fighters, artists and his'torians.
But President Roosevelt's departure
won't be regarded with unmixed regret
in Washington. He has set pace
that a city permeated with traditions
has found hard TO keep up with.
A congressional committee was going
over tire question of additional quartz
for certain Government departments
with Colonel C. S. BUomwell the other
day. Cromwell is the officer in
charge of public buildings and grounds
A clever idea struck member. Way
not use the old, unsightly Pennsylvani
Railroad station that was abandoned a
few months ago.
Impossible" said The Colonel. 81
tore it down last summer"
Tore it down gasped the aston
ished committee. Congress SHOULD
have passed on the question. Who nave
you the authority"
"The President ordered It torn down
replied the p'acid Cromwell. "He said
it was in the way"
Few persons realize the extent 30
which this man in Washington has af-
fected the daily life of the coun-
try. The big things he has done
have been widely commented on-his
influence for a higher moral standard,
for the square deal and for abat-
ing the worship of the Dollar. But
consider sucn a minor thing as the
use of words.
There are scores of expressions that
have passed into the daily life of the
country just because Roosevelt las
given them vitality. Most Of them pro
badly have been used before. He took
them wherever he found Uaem. But
It was tie peculiar use ne put them to
that made them live.
A group of CORES ponden{s was stand
ing ON Pennsylvania avenue the other
night walo.ng for a street Car 10 Ne
Capitol
Il could WISH" one Of them said,
that soroe malefactor of great wealth
would come along and take us up
there"
TIE "malefao,or of great weaEh"
has been made public character by
the President along with the "undesir-
able citizens.
Probably his most effective and last
ing phrase is the Square Deal. 1t was
whole sermon in itself and when it
caught tie attention of the country
the regime of special privileges was
doomed. So far as can be learned the
phrase was first used in a speech
at Springfield II Of July 1903. TIE
President said:
A man who is good enough 90 shed
ms blood for his country Isl good enough
to be given square deal afierward.
More than that no man is entitled 10
less cham that no man shall nave"
Mr.. Roosevelt began his phuse-mak
ing before ne became President In
an address before the Hamilton Club
of Chicago in 1899 lie said:
81 wish TO preach, not the doctrine
of ignoble ease, but the doctrine
of the strenuous life."
Molycoddle appeared in an address
20 the Sphinx Club of Harvard.
'Muckrakers"-or rather, the modern
application of Bunyan's man with the
muchTake-was used in an address
in Washington nesrly three years
ago. 1t was September 2, 1901, just
before McKinley's assassination, that
he quoted IN a speech in Minneapo-
lis the cd proverb: Speak softly and
carry a big stick--you will go far. D."
Mature Fakers" was the title OF an
article he contributed to Outing. "Hit
the line hard. Don't foul and don't
shirk, but hit the line hard" was his
advice to schoolboys.
But space falls TO give complete
list of his sayings that have soaked
into the popular consciousness-"weak
ling" "caven," race suicide'-a term
of Prof. E. A. Ross's but forgotten I'M
til President wrote his letter on the
subject-"a shorter and uglier word"
used at least as early as some eccles
iastic's controversy with Bob Ingesoll
quarter of century ago-"wicked
falsehoOd," FRAGILE" delighted and
the Scrfptwal righteousness that ex-
alteth a nation"
The last days OF an Administration
that has go impressed itself on the