The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-11-30
T. Roosevelt The Real
Riddle of The Universe


fare?' and has he not said it is not
enough that the gaining and keeping
of fortune is no damage to the COM
munity. We must see to it that no
man shall gain and keep fortune un
/ less the gaining and keeping of it |
shall be benefit to the community |
Thus shall the steward of the public |
welfare be established as tribunal
to determine whether the individual |
has gained his property to the benefit
of the community, and whether he is
keeping it to the benefit of the com.
munity.
The vast region of r.Roosevelt's
political economy he has peopled with
law-made race of men and women
who grope their way about in the very
| fog of diffuse and unrelated power.
In the wide range of his active mind
he has never encountered a structure
of authority which he would not
change; a form of government which
he would not alter; society which
he would not transform. In the long
reach of his ample and enriched years
he has never met philosopher whom
he would not advise; teacher whom
he would not intrust; a soldier whom
he would not command; king whose
sceptre he would not WELD; book
which he would not rewrite; religion
which he would not re-organize; a
civilization which he would not recon.
struct.
I'm all the grades of human society
with which he has come in contact he
has never met a man whom he could
; not either love or hate; whom he
could not either praise or blame;
whom he could not either trust or sus-
pect; whom he would not either APP
point or disappoint OF all the prob
: lens in philosophy or literature which
. have confronted him, there is not one
he did not solve; there is not ques'
: ton which he did not answer there
1 is not doubt which he did not re-
solve. In his travels he may have
stood uncovered within the classic
shelter of Sans Souci, where Potsdan
unites the venerated dead with the
virile living, but as he looked upon
e the lean and severe outlines Of Fred
d erick the Great fancy there was 6
: sort of condescending compassion
: which caused him to feel that Fred
e erick had died too young. His rug
a ged figure may have bathed in the
e ineffable light which illumines every
y atom of silence in the tomb of Ma
e poleon; his sibilant voice may have
'e been stilled in the hush which
o. breathes the memory of militan
e France. but as he leaned over tn
balustrade that guards the sacred s.
q berian porphyry and calls up tn
- thrilling scenes of the life of the Lii
tie Corporal | dare say there was no
battle, from Lodi to Ligny, fror
Austerltz to Waterloo, which he coul
not have met and won, He may hav
h paused in the pulseless air of s.
Paul's and gazed upon the funeral ca
of the Iron Duke, wrought from trt
s, plies taken by that illustrious wa
le rior, but there is no doubt, were
IS possible for the living to speak to tn
ID dead, he would have pointed out no
in Waterloo could have been ended
e. the Chateau Hougoumont. He ma
Of have stood at that very congestion
immortals, Westminster Abbey, wher
e. the doubled dust denotes the assen
d, bled riches of England's illustriou
rs dead, but no patient poet or sedat
Is statesman or Christian churchma
Id could have spoken from that speed
less ruin without receiving a dash {
i'd didactic wisdom from the dead. H
r. may have enjoyed the placid surroun'
n ings of the scholarly Sorbonne and r.
joiced in the distinction which hurle
n him at the very height of letters an
n learning, but not even the inspiratio
" and culture of this classic cente
sy could restrain him from urging a
Id immediate increase in the families
IT France. He stood in stately Gull
Hall, garnering as it does the glor
e. of Englands ancient years, and Will
re they, with pomp and spiendor, CAV
ir him the freedom of the city as di
a. tinguished guest, he gave them VII
e unstinted measure the freedom OF h
OF advice.
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