University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-03-09
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
NOW A JOURNALIST
Every Editor and Reporter of Conscientiously
Conducted Newspaper is an Asset to
Community, He Says.

our great anu troubled time J. one of
sneering and supcrcliou> untrutbfuI
hess.
DR.. Abbott and his a>~ociates have
avoided this pitfall also. With them
cultivation and good taste hav, no i'm
piled weakness. Demand for righteous
ness i'm others has not led to abandon
ment of truth on their own part.
The Outlook has stood for righteous.
ness, but it has never been sell right
eous. 1t stands for the thing, of the
spirit. and yet it remembers the needs
of the body. 1t serves LOFTY ideals. il
believes i'm Il lofty ideali-m. But il
knows that common >ci~,. j. essential
above all other qualities To the lealist.
without the capacity To work in hard.
practical fashion for actual results
is merely a boat that il ali sails. and
with neither ballast nor rru,ldcr. The
OutlOOk's belief in %entIc and tend
erness, in the spirit of brothcrIy love.
never blinds it to the necessity of cult.
waiting those hardy. rugged and visor-
Ous qualities for the want ui which in
the individual. as i'm the Nation. no
gentlene>s. no cultivation. and. above.
all. no gift of money making and no
self Indulgence in the soft ease of liv-
ing. can in any way atone.
The Outlook has shown Il fine scorn
OF untruth in every FORM OF uniarness
and in Justice to any man or any cause.
1t is not given to humanity never to
err; but the Outlook makes Il resolute
effort to find out what the facts actu-
ally are before passing Judgment. With
it earnestness and strength OF convic-
ton 90 hand in hand with sincere desire
70 see and to state the other mans
point of view. 1t believes that things
in this world can be made better. but
it does not indOrse quiNotic movements
which would merely leave things worse.
II champions the rights of the many.
1t desires in every way to represent. to
guide Alright, and to uphold the interests
of those whom Abraham Lincoln called
the plain people. 1t feels peculiar
desire to do all that can be done for the
poor and the oppressed. and to help up
ward those struggling to better them
selves. But it has no sympathy with
moral weakness or sentimentality. All
the cause of labor: but it will in no
shape of way condone violence or di,Or-
der. 1t stands for the rights OF prop
nrty. and therefore against the abuses
Of property. 1t believes i'm wise in
and i'm encouragement of
individual initiative: and therefore all
he more it believes in using the collec-
i've force of the whole people to do
what but for the Use of that collective
'orce must be left undonc
Il am glad to be associated with DIR.
Abbott and the group of men and women
who has gathered around him. BECAUSE
hey practice what they preach: and
because they preach the things that are
most necessary to the salvation of this
people. 1t is their earnest belief that
very man when once this has been ac-
Omplished. money Immediately becomes
econdary to many other things In
his matter the Outlook puts it, princi-
lies into practice. 1t strives in proper
Ways to make money. If it did not
make money it could not be- run at all.
'ut making money Is not the prime rea-
on for existence. The first question ASK
d when any matter of policy arises. 80
ar As the Outlook is concerned. is
'hether or not a given course j. right.
nd should he followed bccarl>e il is in
he real and lasting interest of the Ma
ion. If this question is answered in
he affirmative. then The Outlook fol-
'w> the course indicated with all the
pura@e. carncStnc>>. and ability that
re at its disposal