The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18

AuAAtAhS I14uiPIHCltb on wagon just
IN the Trip.
actually put the hippo fleet" to rout
After this his native attendants at
tributed more than human prowess to
him. On still another occasion, while
on the way to the estate of Com
mander Acknowledgement the colonel
and his party nearly famished for
water. In the march from Minute
to Gondokoro, 108 miles, the party
was in the thick of the African jungle
for ten days, fording streams, sleep
ing in the open and enduring hard
ships that only the stoutest in limb and
heart could have gone through with.
Ih1s shows that the expedition was far
from being of the de luxe" order.
Refrains From Politics
Another thing that astounded
Roosevelt's American friends was the
fidelity with which he adhered to his
statement that from the time he left
America until his return he would
refrain from all public discussion of
American politics. Not once has he
violated this rule, and a number of
correspondents, mostly foreign, who
p1ped" political stories and attribut-
ed them to Roosevelt, were called the
shorter and uglier word" instanter
When Roosevelt arrived at Renk
March IL, this being practically his
emerging from the wilderness. there
was a wild rush upon him of CORE
spondents who had engaged special
boats for the up-Nile trip. But all they
learned in political way was that the
colonel would not discuss American
politics. These correspondents were
close friends of Roosevelt, and they
pumped him right and left, before
breakfast and at bedtime. but Roose-
welt was adamant, and the world even
yet has only surmises as to how the
ex-president views political conditions
in this country.
The meeting between Roosevelt and
Clifford Pinchot, whom President Taft
deposed as chief forester. at Porto
Maurizio April 10. it was believed,
would surely result in at least a small
break in Rooseve1t's wall of reserve,
but again the correspondents were
fooled. Roosevelt returns to America
without having given public express
sion to single sentiment that could
reflect his views on Taft, insurgency,
the tariff, the Ballinger affair or any
other of the subjects in which it is
presumed he is deeply interested.
The European Address.
While in Europe Colonel Roosevelt
delivered four set addresses and a large
speeches. To the latter falls the dis
tinction of creating the greatest stir.
Notable among these impromptu affairs
were his address ait Khartum, already
referred to, his speech at the University
of Egypt, IN Cairo, his Cambridge adj
dress and the now famous Guild hall
speech. The Cairo speech bitterly at
tackled the Egyptian Nationalist move
ment, right in the very hotbed of the
agitation. His denunciation of the as
sassination of Premier Boutros Pasha
started hostile demonstration by Ma
tionalist students before his hotel and
made politicians in England gray
headed from worry lest he would stir
up an open rebellion in Egypt
AS for the Guild hall address, Eng
writing about it. Nobody, except
Roosevelt, could get away with such
addresses was comment frequently
heard among American critics. It is
not recalled that any other utterances
ever made by Roosevelt called down
upon him such a storm Of criticism as
this Guild hall speech. He was accused
of presumption, meddHng, dealing in
rnisinformation. seeking to fornent an
Egyptian uprising and of being wholly
un-Am erican in his attitude.
The prepared addresses were deliv-
cred at the University of Sorbonne on
citizenship in a Republic; at Chris
tiania before the Nobel Peace Prize
commission on International Peace;
at the University of Berlin on the
Worlds Movement" and at Oxford
on Biological Analogies in History"
At Sorbonne he raped race suicide.
At Christiania he pleaded for compul-
sorry arbitration of international quar-
rels and the limitation of ornaments.
In Berlin he inveiged against a decay
of fighting edge and expressed the
opinion that American civilization
would survive only through an adher-
ence to the homely virtues. He spoke
for peace, but declared 'woe to the
nation that was not ready to defend
ITSELF
Roosevelt was robbed of a number
of highest honors by the death of King
Edward, chief of these was to have
been the three days entertainment of
himself and family in the royal suite
of the kaiser's palace in Berlin, the
very suite that King Edward occu-
pied on his visits to the German capt.
tai. Such an honor would have been
unique in that private individuals are