New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-06-16
LETTERS OF GREETING
TAFT, Hughes and Gaynor Write
Words of Welcome.

| The Outlook" to which Mr. Roosevelt
is contributor, In its issue Of Saturday
VIII print cordial letters of welcome to the
ex-Fresident from President Taft. Gov
ernor Hughes and Mayor Gaynor Presi-
DEM Taft writes:
| The return of Mr.. Roosevelt from Africa
ana Europe ought to arouse and will
come from his countrymen as any Ameri-
can ever received. After the heavy cares
| s nenuous years, he sought rest by con-
uaSt IN the depths of the African forests
ana IN great Physical exertion In the hunt
me OF large game and the procuring of
Ealuaole specimens of the fauna Of the
Dark Continent
| NO one who knows MIR. Roosevelt, and
no one who understands the character of
the African climate and the kind of hunt
ing IN which he was engaged. can mini
combat with wild beasts to which he was
exposed 1t goes without saying that wher-
ever there was danger he welcomed its
excitement and delighted to observe and
record Its effect upon his own emotions.
t1is trip to Africa was planned with the
thoroughneSs of a military campaign. and
MS plans were executed with the vim and
energy that might be expected.
III view Of what happened when he
reachSd civilization, however, those of US
VINO had the privilege of talking with him
before he went can afford to have some
fun at his expense in his frequently avowed
determination to avoid all public functions
and entertainments. He expected to call
on the persons in authority in each place
which he visited, to have half an hours
conversation with the ruler IL he would
/ receive him, and then to go on his way
like private citizen, seeing the things of
interest and hurrying home. Instead of
that his path from the time he landed in
europe until he sailed has been a royal
progress, and the courtesy and attention
and profound respect shown him not only
by kings and the leading men of every
country but also by the people have not
beer equalled since Grant made his tour
/ hi iS rf7or mn rcY 7ork-
abe because Grant had the deserved repu-
tauon of being a great military leader who
mad commanded a million men and won a
war of gigantic extent; while Mr.. Roose-
velts achievements which have given him
his standing before the world have been
almost wholly in peaceful times and in
war against civil wrong and corruption,
which ordinarily is not spectacular and
does not command worldwide attention
The remarkable character Of the reception
that he has had in Europe shows the deep
IMPRESS that his personality, his character,
MS aims and his methods as a civil and
social reformer have made upon the world
at large. He was always, of course, a
man of great breadth of vision and catho-
ncity of view but he comes back to us
now with his experience enriched by OBJ
servation Of each country of Europe from
point somewhat behind the scenes. With
his notable power of quick acquisition Of
the circumstances of situation his close
ard more or less intimate association with
rope and with their prominent statesmen
has given him insight into world poll
tics that VIII make him still more valuable
to his country as a statesman.
The people of this country will give him
welcome from their hearts, first, because
of their affection for him and the fact
that he has returned to them safe and
sound from a perilous expedition: second,
because since he left them they have seen
the people and the great men and the
monarchs of other countries tender their
profound respect to the same qualities in
the man that his own people had previous
ly noted and loved; and. third, because by
n
strength Of his deliverances. he has In
creased the prestige Of Americans through
out the world.
Governor Hughes's greeting. though
briefer. is none the less hearty It follows:
On my own behalf and on behalf Of your
fellow citizens of the State of New York,
whose cordial sentiment 1t gives me pleas
ure to express, I extend TO you a most
hearty welcome upon your return home.
The people of your native state which
nourished your strength and gave you to
the nation for service of worldwide in
huence, take pride in the distinguished
honors which you have received abroad
a fitting tribute to your representative and
personal character. and join in wishing you
the most abundant happiness and a long
life enriched by continued usefulness and
by the love and esteem which know no
division with respect to party, creed or
race.
Mayor Gaynor. speaking for himself and
for the city, writes in characteristic vein,
saying:
The people of the city of New York do
well to welcome Mr. Roosevelt home He
is one Of them-bone of their bone, flesh OF
their fiesh-and they have "a soft side" for
him. Through long ancestry he is native
and 70 the manner born here. And the peo-
pie Of the whole country Will join in the
welcome. They have witnessed with pleas
ure the honor done to Mr. Roosevelt in
have they now seen the like in the 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
fact But the chief reason was the same
as in the case OF Mr.. Roosevelt. namely,
that having been twice President of the
United States and become again private
citizen, docile to just authority, he per
sonified in the European mind the idea of
a government of laws distinguished from
q government of men 1t is that idea, first
vttalized on this continent, and afterward
followed as an example In Europe, by SLOW
degrees and by one nation after another,
which shall always make one who has been
in chief rulership over this country an OBJ
ject of profound interest and reverence TO
the rest of the world. In one form and
another we expressed II in the beginning
in its threefold division of power in all or
our fundamental instruments of govern
nlent, the loftiness of the conception BENG
feIfcifous language. as, for instance, IN the
Massachusetts Bill of Rights:
I'm the government of this common
wealth the legislative department shall
never exercise the executive and judicial
mowers or either of them: the executive
shall never exercise the legislative and 1u-
diciaI powers. either OF them: the 1u-
dicial shall never exercise the legislative
and executive powers. either of them; TO
the end it may be a government OF laws
and not of men.
Great problems now confront US for soIu-
ton the accumulation of more than TWO
han n
diyfdual success, if not greed, than on the
r1,oIic veal No few. but all Of Us, are 10
biaTne for It, either by actual commission
or by Indifference and neglect With that
era now drawing toward its close, let us
GET our standpoint anew in this great con-
ception OF government, 10 the end that we
NAV lose all fear. we most certainly
sbau of a resort to force to right whatever
has grown up among us that suiteth not a
Commonwealth and has In IT the canker or
death 10 government Of equal opportunity
~ ali and favoritism privilege TO none.
MESSAGES TO ROOSEVELT