Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1910-08-11
AOt "IhG Greatest American. +"
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~ tAft-e 4 All c4lNdI ElILel-
The above is undoubtedly the
mostunique if not mawkish aphorism
among the college boys outside OF
Cairo. The lions and other animals
Of Africa that the cowboys" Of
that festive country drove from the
bushes that the Colonel of the
Rough Riders (once backed bv
negro troops who saved his NUT
ton" at San Juan. } might shoot them
from a place or safety. al his pleas
uTe. as they ran out from the iungles
into the open.
Wnen the governorShip Of New
York was brewing. that be mich, be
with the boys, who were looking for
a oe.l-wctner TO lead them. he cot
up the round Robin upon the
plea OF local malaria in Cuba tha. all
OF ms regiment would die unless
sent home. The SEQUEL is shown bv
the history OF the Wood regimerf
and before the war on the Island hsG
concluded. Does this show M-
Roosevelt 70 be a man of coura~eors
quaiiues2
This man. the late chief executive
was mace president by accident hu-
according to his own confession. ''it
was by virture Of the war with
Spain"
He sent the United States war
ships around the world az the ex.
pense Of the people. He went 10
Africa in the capacity of a taxider
mist at the corporate expense Of the
smithsonian Institute. accomoanied
oy his son. Kermit. who was official
photographers CD. The ex-Presi-
dent h7- -.r,--f Sc --
slaught on the sugar and tobacco
trusts. the standard oil COMPANY. the
monopOlists. the editors of news
papers. the railroads. the suicidal
mothers OF France and America
He has ridden rough shod over
many southern people OF celebrity.
Upon the plea Of retolm. he struck
from our coin the honored legend.
In God We Trust" He has vio-
lated the organic and statutory law
or the land. and supplied all suppos-
&c deficiency in the law. by his own
cictum. lie has revued the Judges
or the highest courts because thev
failed 70 catch his idea OF what their
decisions should be. He has used
the Federal ad Ebitum. the Nav
flower warship was the tov OF his
family at Oyster Bay. He took con
troll or the Panama Canal most cir
cuitously at the expense of Colombia
re placed Mr.. Taft on his Job and In
turn that gentleman made him Am
oassador 10 attend the obseouies oil
King Edward vice Mr.. Whirelaw
Reio who was already on the snot
and while representative OF the
United States, without AUTHORITY
dared 70 tel England in his slxv-I
scraP!ng speech, while enjoying her
hospitality and freedom. If she
could not govern Egypt. to step
down and out"
II the foregoing does not indicate
Mr.. Roosevelt as the greatest living
aPhloglsuc American whose lights
have tied, whose garlands are dead d"
the citizens Of the American audito.
rum would like 70 know? Tre
county looks on with accumulated |
amazement. The arena Of the world !
stands aghast in beholding so as
founding a mOnsuosity as he strode
two hcmispheres leaving his |
wake mouonlesS and smothered /
without awakening responsive echo
beyond the reception of tEl= ward |
heelers OF New York.
Does such grand and leftvl
trembling make a man a great
statesman. a great citizen? Certain
ly not! He pleases the boys in the
galleries, as the acrobat delights hisl
audience IN the arena.
Mr. Roosevelt. the So called
patriot has been the greatest CRATER
since ne appeared on the scene of
poliucs. His parallel is only found
d the chimerical career Of Napoleon
"nen ne shot his prisoners of war |
or General Grant who preferred the
1eatn OF his men, without food in
confederate prisons, rather than ex-
,nange them according 10 the rule