The Detroit times., 1910-06-20
EHTsptek0Fh|AN
DRIVES THRONES
into FRENZY
lines Correspondent Gives HIS I'm
pressions Of Col. Roosevelt's Re-
turn To Native Soil To Be
Hailed BY Multitudes. .
loom of Cannon During Celebration
Echoes Striking Announcement,
"Better Days Are Coming"
BY w. @. SHEPHERD.

BY w. @. SHEPHERD.
NEW YORK. June 20.-Is all this
Tor that one man? The steamship
2 Kaiserin Victoria looked smaller than
La postage stamp as she lay In Ne"
york bay: on her bridge stood the
nan Theodore Roosevelt, the size OF
4 = tiny speck. Many guns doomed sa
i Iutes. hundreds OF boats scurried from
all sides toward the steamer; whistles
4 ehrieked: flags snapped In the ar:
x the shores were black with hundreds
of thousands of cheering human
/. bsings.
Standing on the deck OF a speeding
\ ting. Mr.. American, II you found ulEe
Il Al the midst OF the wonderful tuniuit
\ 10 collect your wits for a moment, yon
Y asked yourself why II was that all
Z these millions were 30 deIiriously glad
4 the man wasn't killed by lion or by
\ fayer and was safe home from MS
4 hunting trip. -
The salute of twenty-one guns is
Z xiyen. Listen to them-they seem 10
\ boom out. Better days coming! Bet
4 ter days coming!"
T.ha roaring whistles seem TO take
4 m the same words, Better days com
n fnrI" At first, before you asked the
question, they seemed all &c De souh,.
ins only a wild, senseless, incohereht
4 maudlin "hurrah!" for one smail
Y human being. But you were wrons;
4 they're really saying: Better days
4comingr'- 4
And then, as you realized what IL all
Y meant, Mr.. American, there swept
over yon that Fourth OF July feeling
!; that made the goose flesh prickle dowr
!. your spine and you suddenly knew that
foIl this tumuit was one OF the nrst
real. earnest, genuine. heartreachins
Fourths OF July teven II 1t was the
4 18th Of June) that this country has
seen since somewhere back in the '6es I
The whole thing is about the stars
and Stripes and the eagle: Roosevelt
B that tiny. wonderfui- speck OF a man,
only stands for what the Stars an6
stripes and the eagle mean. 4
And the FIRST thing you know you
yourseIf are cheering TO beat the band.
Over ON your right is the statue OF
I.1berty: before. on the horizon, you
see the narrows OF New York harbor,
The gateway OF the New World. You
realize that your. own United States
6. - the only nation in the world that
has freedom as its motto. and that the
hopes and fears OF human liberty for
ages to come are met here in this
land.
II Was easy enough 10 get the thrill
Of that wonderful thought. there. under
Z liberty statue. within the gateway or
The United States. and with that figure |
Of Roosevelt in-view.- waving his nat |
1t the tlackened shores.
No American could have Witnessed |
that Homecoming from the old world |
\ IN the harbor Of New York without
realizing the worldwide greatness OF
these United States.
Just for the moment Theodore |
Roosevelt seemed to stand for the bet
TER days that the guns were roaring |
about and that's why we cheered
Col. Roosevelt has been over
whelmed by the deluge of letters and |
kilograms waiting him at Oyster Bay |
and at his Office with the Outlook, |
Thousands, OF letters have accuniu- /
lated and more are arriving hourly. |
Many of them are friendly greetings, |
some contain political advice and not
few are from old friends with whom |
the colonel has been corresponding
II may interest the writer's to know |
! that the great mass of this correspon- |
dence will never reach Col. Roose-
yelt's eye. Some of it may be seen
\ BY persons employed to look ii over, |
but II is not certain that all letters
( will even be read.
While appreciating tie kindly |
thought and the good intentions OF the |
people writing these letters" said |
Col Roosevelt today, Il would be glad |
81 you would make II known that the |
n volume OF my correspondence renders
II impossible for me to give it my per. |
sonaI attention"
During the twenty-five days Of Col. |
Roosevelt's stay in London, he re-
\ cefved more than 1910 letters, Dur
Ing the IL days between March 4.
y 1909, and the date Of his sailing for
h Africa, he received more than 1000
letters.