The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-21
my sP[CK Of Man
DRIVES 4HR0NGs
/ iEI8 FRENZY
dnes' Correspondent Gives His I'M
presnidax Of Col. Roosevelt's Re-
turn To Native Soil To Be
Haked By Multitndes. /.
pom of Cannon During Celebration
Echoes Striking Annou ncement
Better Days Are c0ningt''
aY w. G. sttEPHt:Rp.


NEW YORK. June 20.--Is all this
- that one MANI The steamship
Iraiserin Victoria hooked smaller than
: p hostage stamp as she Jay In NeM
( YORK bay: on Der bridge stood the
man Theodore Roosevelt, the size OF
NJ tiny speck. Many guns noomet sa
lutes. hundreds OF boa,Is scur1ed from
All sides toward the ste amer; whistles
6hrieked; flags snappe in the arr
4 re shores were black with hundreds
- thousands OF cheering human
beings.
Standing on the deck OF N speeding
ting. Mr.. American. II you h'und uirr
AZ the midst of the wonderful tumult
rs collect your wits for NOR lent. you
Seked yourself why IL was that all
f<hese millions were so deliriousiy glad
.fha man wasn't killed by lion or by
5 ever and was safe home from MS
<hunting trip. 1850 a..,..
The salute OF twenty-one guns Is
iven. Listen to them-they seem 10
+ koom out. Better days coming. bet
<ter days coming!"
The roaring whistles seem to take
~ the same words, Better days com
S3rrtp At first, before, you asked the
S,sesfiou. they-seemed all to be sound
1n~ only q wild,@ seHseless, incoharenf.
naudlin "hurrah!' for one smai
knman being. But you were wrong;
they're really saying; Better days
tomingi"
And then, as you realized what IL all
<meant, Mr.. American. there swept
*oxer you that Fourth OF July feeling
&that made the goose flesh prickle dowr
xour spine and you suddenly knew that
I'M this tumult was one OF the nrst
Zeal. earnest, genuine. heart-reachins
Evourths OF July (even II 1t was the
1fth of June) that this country has
zen since somewhere back in the SOS.
The whole thing is abcm the Stars
md Stripes and the eagle: Roosevelt,
That tiny, wonderful speck OF a man,
only stands for what the Stars anc
*Htripes and the eagle mean.
And the first thing you know you
|<ourself are cheering 10 beat the band.
Over on your right Is the statue OF
4 I.xberty; before. On the horizon, you
s &oe the narrows Of New York harbor,
the gateway OF the New World. You
|realize that your own United States
Ei3 the only nation IN the world that
&has freedom as its motto. and that the
hopes and fears of human liberty for
ICES TO come are met here IN this
land.
n II was easy enough 10 get the thrill
& 81 that wonderful thought. there. under
4 liberty statue. within the gateway OF
The United States, and with that figure
|of Roosevelt in view, waving his Aat
Nat the blackened shores.
No American could have witnessed
I hat homecoming from the old world
41n the harbor OF New York without
q xeaIizing the worldwide greatness OF
q these United States.
lust for the moment Theodore
1 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
y fclegrams waiting him at Oyster Bay
B and at his Office with the Outlook
thousands OF letters have accumu-
lated and more are arriving hourly.
Many of them are friendly greetings,
B some contain politica, advice and not
3 few are from old friends with whom
the colonel has been corresponding.
II may interest the writer's to know
n that the great mass of this correspon-
( dence will never reach Col. Roose-
velt's eye. Some of 1t may be seen
B BY persons employed to look 1t over,
but Il is not certain that all letters
8 will even be read.
while approaching the. kindly
Thought and the good intentions, Of the
s people writing these letters" said
Col. Roosevelt today, Il would be glad
4 II you would make IL known that the
volume of my correspondence renders
4 II impossible for me 10 give it my per,
a sonal attention"
During the twenty-five days OF Col.
Rooseyelt's stay In London, he re-
ceived more than 5000 letters. Dur
Ing the II days between March 4,
1909, and the date Of his sailing for
X Africa, he received more than 1000
etters. A s-.- ...- 4as.-i, 80 ~ =.