The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-03
From the Berlin Zukunft.

From the Berhn Zukunft.
 "HE five and twenty Presidents from
 George Washington to William
 ! Mckinley who have presided over the United States of America have all together made less noise than the twen- ty-sixth alone-Mr Theodore Roosevelt. of New York state
 On every tree he loves to. o.carve his rec ord as the cleverest and bravest, the purest and the greatest man of his cen tury at least-lawyer. councillor, histor- ian, national economist, military and na- val expert; the grat organizer and colonel of Rough Riders, the victor of Las Guasimas; Achilles and Homer in one person. For has he not himself de- voutlv set forth the heroic deeds of his Cuban campaign?
 When the assassination of Mckinley on September IA, 1901, he became pres
 dent, the strenuous life entered the White House. His predecessor a man of exceptional intelligence, foresight and will power, kept in the background and only stepped into the light when the interests of the state drove him from the shadow The new Lord wished to be visible in the darkest corners of the uni- verse and was tireless in his efforts to engrave his priceless name on the tablets of the worlds history. In Cuba and the Philippine archipelago many an American did his duty nobly, but not even of the hero Hobson was so mucn said and published as of the rough riding colonel.
 He organizcd his fame. Today he se- cures for Uncle Sam an imperial destiny. Tomorrow he summons the forces of pub lie clamor against the great corpora tions, the presidents of which hel curses as public plunderers and malefactors of great wealth-although himself piloted by the trusts through the shoals of pop ular election. A day later he promises to humanity a higher civilization ana to the people of the United States health sanity and purity of public life. Dawns a day on which there is nothing TO report of his personal doings, then at least something of the universal one s daughter must appear in the pubic prints.
 A demagogue of imposing shape, he Is never troubled by scrupes or doubts. He grasps a situation instantly, judges in falibly and assumes with courage never before seen in the New World the air of a victorious imperator.
 Estimated from distance, no consid- erable result of his 50 years of life appears He has not'cleansed the Augean sstables of the union. He has not cut off a single head of the corporation hydra. Bv terrifying the capitalists he has thrown his country into a crisis the results of which are still being felt
 More intellectual Americans speak of tls mans bluffs in a tone of ironic e. tempt. Yet something of the spirit of the people must have found in him vigorous expression; otherwise he could not have caught and kept so strong following among the Yankee crowd
 Since he ceased to be President his self-advertisement has doubled-nay, multiplied hundredfold.
 Teddy" has undertaken to direct a social political periodical. He who but yesterday had his hand upon all men, including thee and me, and who, like Charles V, was all in all. now modestly instribes his doorplate Editor"
 We rites editorials. He goes hunt ing in Africa. He shoots all the ami. mals of desert and tropics ever known to zoology. He dashes into danger; he never gets hurt. Nulla dies sine linea. Not black page in his diary. Stars of the theatrical Armament grow pale with envy and Caruso's press agent must rack his brains for magnificent menda- cites to claim from newspaperdom even the smallest favors Day by day human ity hears what the inestimable one has dared and done. When bored to death with his hunting tales they are fed with discourses on art.
 But Theodore roars at our very door. In Cairo, where last February Mos lem apothecary, educated in Oxford and Zurich, shot the old prime minister, Butros Pasha, the traveller makes a speecA, before Sir Eldon Gorst, the hig'l commissioner and brands the murder as a deed of shame and roughly informs the Egyptians that their striving for constitution is premature.
 1 In Rome-a new bluff! He desires to