El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-16
LETTERS Of WELCOME To ROOSEVELT
FROM PROMINENT MEN MADE PUBLIC

: creased the prestige of Americans
/ throughout the world.
William H Taft
From the Governor of New York.
My Dear Col. Roosevelt
On my own behalf and on behalf Of
your fellow citizens OF the state of New
ork. whose cordial sentiment It gives
me pleasure to express. I extend to you
a most hearty welcome upon your re-
turn home.
The people Of your native state, which
nourished your strength and gave you
TO the nation for service Of worldwide
influence, take pride In the distinguish
ed hOnOrs which you have received
abroad as a fitting tribute to your
representative and personal character.
and join in wishing you the most
abundant happiness and long life en-
rtched by continued usefulness and by
the love and esteem which know no d.
VISION with respect to party, creed or
race.
With assurance of my high regard.
am faithfully yours.
Charles z. Hughes
From Mayor OF New York City
The people Of the city of New York
do well TO welcome Mr.. Roosevelt home.
lie Is OF them-bOne Of theirsbone. flesh
Of their flesh-and they have a soft
side" for him Through a long ancestry
he Is native and to the manner born
here. And the people Of the whole coun-
try viii join IN the welcome. They have
witnessed with pleasure the honor done
to Mr.. Roosevelt IN Europe Twice with
in two generations have they now seen
the Ike In the case Of two Of their for
mer presidents Gen. Grant had not
only been president twice like Mr..
Roosevelt, but had one OF the
great military careers Of the world
back Of him. No doubt some Of
the extraordinary curiosity dfsplaved
in Europe TO see him and do him honor
arose from this latter fact But the
chief reason was the same as in the
case of Mr.. Roosevelt, namely, that,
having been twice president Of the
United States, and become again a pri-
vate citizen. dOcile TO just authority.
he persOnified in the European mind The
idsa Of government OF laws as distin-
Suished as government OF men.
An Example
II is that idea. first vitaIized on this
continent, and afterwards followed Is
an example in Europe, by slow degrees
and by one nation after another, which
shall always make one who has BEEN
in chief rulership over the country an
object Of profound interest and rever-
ence TO the rest of the world. In one
form and another we expressed it in
Of power In all Of our fundamental In
struments Of governments, the loftiest
Of the conception being sometimes ex-
pressed in equally lofty and felicitous
language. as. for instance, in the Mass
achusetts bill of rights:
In the government OF this common
wealth, the legislative department
shall never exercise the executive and
judicial powers, or either of them: the
executive shall never exercise the leg
islative fnd judicial powers. OF either
Of them; sthe judicial shall never exer-
else the legislative and executive pow
ers, or either of them: to the end It
may be & government of laws and not
of men"
Great problems now confront US for
solution, the accumulation Of more
than two generations Of men more
bent on their Individual successes. II
not greed, than on me public veal.
No few, but all of us, are to blame for
it. either by actual commission or bv
indifference and neglect With that
era now drawing toward It's close let
US get our standpoint anew in this
great conception - government TO
the end that we may lose all fear as
we most certainly shall, Of a resort to
force TO right whatever has grown I'D
among US that suiteth not a common
wealth, and has in. 1T the csnker of
death to government Of equal oppor-
tunity to all and favoritism or privi-
Iege 10 none ". J. Gaynor.