The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-21
Mixed Views on the Noisisst and Most Remarkable President That the Country Has Ever Had--Most of the College Men Say His Place in History win Be High.

Ys Theodore Roosevelt . great man or shamf Is he hero or hum bugf
 There Is q cloud of witnesses to either Characterization. Mr.. James Bryce has praised him as the greatest President since Washington. Mir. Ed- ward Hartman has denounced him as the most dangerous man that ever occupied the Presidential chair. Bet waSn these two extremes all sorts of intermediates shades of opinion have been expressed by friends and foes
 What verbal compromise. if any. would succinctiy sum up his virtues and his failings?
 Nr. Roossveit's three most ' char. scterfsfic sayings are "the strenuous life" sthe squars deAI' and ." the big stiol.-s HJs admirers hold that he has embedded all three before the world. Are they right or wrong.
 Coucesnig his strsnuosity there can be no question. He is the most active. the most energetic the most forceful. of all our present day statesmen. But are his activities always directed into proper channeIsf Is his energy utilized or wasted7 fs his force alway or usu- ally exertsd on the right side?
 Has he given Q square deal to hts foes as well as to his friends. given it alike to the business man. the politician. the private individual, the general public.
 Has he wtelded the big stick to the benoff of the countries and the peoples under our patronage7
 Of his personal popularity there ean be no more doubt than of his strenuos- fly. But ts the good feeling which he creates born of unqualified admiration and respect?
 Or Is there e burlesque side to his character which appeals gratefully to our senae of iiumor7 In other words. ss the nations darling spoiled childf
 Or he a massive many sided, full grown man who imposes himself upon Us by sheer force of his intellect his virtues and his dominating personalityf
 Opsmions Of Critics.
 The greatest President since Wash 4ngton-yames Bryce
 Theodore Roosevelt has borne him self well in the Presidential chair He done his duty as he, saw it, fegrlessly, wisely and tmpartfally.. Tn so doing legion of snobs Nand Q multitude of. eoolss-Bo5ton Pilot.
 have seen two tremendous works of Nature. One Is Niagara Falls and the other Is the President of the United States. and I am not sure which Is the more wonderful.-John Morley.
 Tal6e Mir Gladstone, Mfr. Rhodes, Lord Charles Beresford and John Burns. Boil them down until you get the residuum essence into an American Dutchnan. and you have something ike the new President of the United statssr--English Review of Rsvaews.
 The American President Ia by, far the. most Interesting parsonage in all the world of the present day-Berlin Oeutsche Tages zeitang;
 The President has not, since he. has been in the White House. estsblishsd for himself Q reputation for accuracy, and this fact will put the public on guard against 6 too precipitate. con. demnaticn of those whom he aeeuses.-- Baltimore Sun.
 At this moment President Roosevelt is probably the most interesting poll teal figure in the world--I.ondon Spectator (1s02.)
 He is the true statesman of the twentieth century, and as such Deserves well Of his country and of all parts of the gIobe--Baron D'Estournelles de Constant.
 benevolent despot, waiving the laws Of the United States as it suits him, and whom 1t suits him. Could personal rule. executive usurpation and the ut most possibilities of corrupt and irre- sponsible diotatorship further so?-l Albany Argus, 1dlg s~G l
 It is impossible to, void the sus- Dtcion that in respect of certain peouli- l arttiee of temper and ianuAge the President is treated as more or less ok joke. shah we say. laughing | stock7 in Washington.--AEilwa | Sentinel.
 President Roosevelt, in hunting through various American jungles. has struck big game. But the public likes | him because he is not afraid of the | biggest of them and because he holds | his duty to the people paramount
 The country has seen Presidents, l many of them. who have been out of | sympathy with the policies of their | Congresses. but we doubt whether the | country has, ever seen c President, 1 who. like Mr Roosevelt. has made | himaek so offensive to his legislative | bodies. It is ptty.-New Haven Jour- 
 That Theodore Roosevelt has abused | bis office; that hia natural qualities have led to the most alarming and Iamentable consequences; that his un- pridled lust of self-aggrendizemenk and l love of publiCity thre9ten the stability, | if not the very existence, of the poll 1 tica1 structure in which he holds oe- | these fscts do not justify or 1 excuse the Congress of the United | eSates in adding its efforts Co hts to | humilSate the nation. Roosevelt, with | out it's aid. has done all that fs neces- AakA.RHARN TaRNHA&~