The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-06-18
R00SEVELT'S
EUROPEAN TOURS
Where He Has Been and
What He Has Done.
Kings Net on Terms Of
Equality.

tionalists and spoke for the British
government. In Rome be refused to
meet the pope unless he could retain
his entire freedom. In Austria he met
on equal terms the emperor and Kos
suth, the friend of liberty In France
he spoke vigorously against race sui
eide and In favor of the homely viz
tues. In Christiania he lifted his voice,
already hoarse and frayed in favor of
peace, provided it be the pence of right
eousness. In Denmark heswalked the
ground that Hamlet walked and would
have talked with the ghost as a broth.
or If the apparition haddarcd put in
an appearance. In Germany he spent
long hours with the Kaiser, witnessed
n sham battle and discussed on the
fighting edge. In Holland he greeted
the burghers as fellow DutcImen, and
in England he accepted the sad duty of
representing his country 1T the funeral
of the King. Everywhere he was the
same Roosevelt we had known, at
home, as keen In his pleasures, as I'M
firing, rs democratic and as full of
information on oil possible subjects.
He made the name Of private citizen
badge of distinction.
AS to the numt er of kings he gath
cred in his collection Of specimens IT
is impossible to be numerically exact,
but to the best Of my recollectioni
he bagged them all except Nicholas
of Russia and Alfonso of Spain. Per-
haps he overlooked them In the rush.
But with these two possible excep-
tons he saw everything aud every
body worth seeing, went through.
Europe with an express train force
that gave the effete monarchies nery-
Gus prostitution, took the degree of
IL. D. at Cambridge, propelled words
of advice like a human Calling gun
and made John Bull apoplectlc by i'd
wishing him either to govern Egypt or
get out.
Cannot Escape Publicity.
1t is a great thing to be president of
the United States. 1t is greater to be
as big man outside the presidency as
in it. Some ex-presidents have raised
chickens, some have become college
lecturers or business meA some have
been elected to congress- and some
have gone into innocuous desuetude.
Only one has become a faunal natural.
list and the big noise ottwo heni-
spheres. There is none like him; none
ever was or ever will be, 1t is I'M
possible that there should be anoth'
or like hlr in this land or any other
beside the seven seas.
Colonel Roosevelt went to Africa to,
escape publicity. Did he escape it,.
Is 1t possible TINT he should escape 1t
anywhereF When he is absent people
wonder what he is doing, When he.
is present they wonder what he Will
do next There Is no keeping such
man out Of the newspapers. If he
were to hunt for the south pole his
every move would be chronicled. II
he were to live IN Zululand, In China
or in Hohoken It would 10 the same.
The reporters would find him out, and
IL they did not ind him out they would
write about him anyway, Roosevelt
is front page character, Tldlngs Of
him run as naturally to display type
as the river flows to the ocean or the
sparks fly upward.
Nobody knows how far hc has tray-
eled since he left US, but he has COW
cred considerable portion Of two con-.
tineuts. He has MOI been as great q
traveller as his successor. but has prob
ably enjoyed 1t more. He has been
over the least civilized and most civ.
llized parts Of the globe and has been
equally at home In both. He has gone
from the virgin jungle to the ancient
pyramids where Napoleon sald forty
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