Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-04

reference to what he had agreed to do
as providently as Mr.. Roosevelt. Per-
haps L value this virtue more highly
because 1 lack it myself.
1.-THE result of quick decision and ac-
ton might have inspired the success
Of Mr.. Roosevelt's career If it had not
been that he has been freer than most
men from that pride of opinion when
prevents many men from admitting
their errors, reversing their judgment
and changing their course.
II have had to do with number or
presidents and with a good many
chiefs and 1 am we'll within the truth
when l say that L never met man
who. under proper presentation, would
reverse himself as willingly and with
as little trace of obstinacy or unreason-
ableness as Mr.. Roosevelt.
"The relation between Mr.. Roosevelt
and myself has been one of close and
sweet Intimacy. 1t has never been
ruf11ed in the slightest degree, and L
don't think that we have ever mis-
understood each other. Mr.. RooseVelt
tastes and mine have not been the
same.
Violent in Athletics
I'm the matter of athletics he takes
to those games more violent than | am
suited to- and more violent than L IKE
He has the strongest literary sense
and d power of application in readlng
current literature that to me is mar -
velous. He loves the woods, he loves
hunting, he lives life akin to that OIL
the pioneer; [ don't.
Mr.. Roosevelt never had the educa-
ton and practice of lawyer. his IN
tense desire to reach practical results
for good has made him at times mn
patient OF the restraint OIL legal
methods, while l have been trained as
lawyer and as a judge and am as
strongly imbued with the necessity Tor
legal methods as eleven years on the
bench are likely to make one; ana YET,
in spite of this difference of method
and difference Of temperament, IL Is
quite remarkable to me, and we nave
frequently commented on 1t 10 eaSn
other, that we have been in agreement
in our views as to the results that
ought to be obtained in the matter OF
government and political progress, even
to details, much more than other men
who have come into association with
both of us.
"Mr. Roosevelts courage in the ex-
preston of his convictions l need not
dwell upon. His real, and what one
might almost describe as affectlonate'
interest in the welfare of the poor man.
of the man who has great obstacles to
meet and who has the odds against him
in lifes struggle, and the sincerity OF
his desire to help that class OF men
no one who ever had to do with MIN
could doubt, and his insistence has al
ways been that the difhculty between
the so-called classes in the country anu
the failure of educated lawyers ana
political economists and Others to bring
about proper relations between the
well-to-do and those dependent upon
wages for their living arises from an
absence of proper point of view on
the part of those who are leading COM
Portable lives.
1.-THE confidence that the common,
plain people, including the wage earn
ers, have had ire Theodore Roosevelt
as their representative and defender,
has been most perfectly placed, for
there never was a champion more sim
cere in support of their real interests,
and yet there was never frlend
franker in his statement to them OF
the unpleasant truths that occasionally
they ought to be told.
"Mr. Roosevelt understands the plain
people about as we'll as Lincoln did,
shares their feeling and gives accu-
rate expression to them. Hence ms
marvellous hold upon the great body or
the people, which has continued 10
exist in undiminished strength, In spite
of the criticism heard of him and MS
methods in quarters more conspicuous
than really significant.
when the friction of the last few
months shall be forgotten, when the
mists of momentary irritation shall
have disappeared. the greatness OF
President Roosevelt as president and
leader of men in one of the great moral
movements of the country's history Will
! become clear to everyone, and he Will
take his place in history with Wash
ington and Lincoln"