The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-06-16
WILLIAM H TAFT.
From the Governor Of New York.

From the Governor OF New York
NV Dear Colonel Roosevelt. On
my own behalf and on behalf of Your
fellow citizens of the state OF New
York. whoce cordial sentiment II
gives me pleasure to express, / e1-
tend to you n most hearty welcome
upon your return home.
The people of your native state.
which nourished your strength and
gave you to the nation for services
OF worldwide influence. take pride In
the distinguished honors which you
have received abroad as a fitting trib-
ute to your representative and per
sonal character. and join In wishing
you the most abundant happiness
and long life enriched by continued
usefulness and by the love and es-
TEEN which know no division with
respect to party. creed orFHace.
With assurance OF my high regard.
| am faithfully yours. Al
From tho Mayor Of New n ork City.
The Honorable Theodot Roosevelt
The people OF the city { 61w York
do well to welcome Mr. Roosevelt
home. He is of them-boSe OF their
bone, flesh of their 6eyh-and they
have a soft side" for him Through
a long ancestry he "a native and to
the manor born here, And the people
of the whole country will Join In the
welcome. They have witnessed With
pleasure the honor done TO Mr..
Roosevelt in Europe. Twice within
two generations have they now seen
the like In tho case Of two OF their
former presidents. General 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 displayed In
Europe to see him and do him honor
arose from this latter fact But the
chief reason was the same as In tho
case of Mr.. Roosevelt. namely, that.
having been twice president of the
United States and become again
private citizen. doclle to Just author
ity. he personified In the European
mind the Idea OF a government ot
laws as distinguished as govern
ment of men. 1t is that Idea. first
vitalized on this continent. and after
MiIuo Gu do du III -"
rope. by slow degrees and by one ma
ton after another, which shall al.
ways make enc who has been In chlet
rulership over the country an object
of profound interest and reverence 10
the rest of the world In one form
and another We expressed II In the
beginning in It's threefold division oil
power In all of our fundamental iu-
struments OF government, the lofti-
ness of the conception being some
times expressed in equally lofty and
felicitouS language, as. for Instance
In the Massachusetts bill of rights;
In the government OF this common
wealth. the legislative department
shall never exercise the executive
and judicial powers. or either oil
them: the executive shall never eIer-
else the legislative and judicial pow.
ers. OF either of them, the Judicial
shall never exercise the Legislative
and executive powers or either OF
them. TO the end II may be n govern
ment 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 success. II
not greed, than on the public veal
No few. but all OF US. are to blame
for II. either by actual commission or
by Indifference and neglect with
an era now drawing toward It's close,
let us get our standpoint anew In this
great conception Of 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
up among us that suiteth~ not com
monwealth. and has In 1t the canker
OF death TO government OF equal oD-
portunity to all and favoHtism or
privilege TO none. w. J. GAYNoR.