The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1911-06-01
Roosvelt, . Man Of Destiny
by Mary Herfert)

"A lew men have lllumined nations
with their deeds. Many have aided
affairs of state but less than q score
have risen to the preservation of a
nation, standing alone, fearlessly fer
principles, for the good of humanity,
unmindfui of self. These world men.
such as Caesar, Adolphus and WASH
ington, We're developed by crises, re-
sulting from the efforts of the people
under oppressive rules to obtain free
dom, anu the strife of classes. To sue
coed these leaders needed masterfui
minds with board views of canditions
within the state and throughout the
world. They needed the humane
spirit.
Today in our era of peace classes exist.
America has her wealthy citizens, her
common people and her poor The
United States Senate and house of Re-
representatives. have become more auto.
cratic. Some OF the officials are cor
rupted by the undue influence of ealth.
Party is stronger thaa. patriotism.
While the nation advances commercial
ly and industrially, the problem Of
uplifting each citizen remains unsolv-
ed.
Even in this century of peace, these
conditions reveal a conflict within the
nation. They need not an ilnpcriaist
but master, not revolutionist but
man. The citizen of the United
States able to lead is this civil and
moral crisss is Theodore Roosevelt,
modern statesman, world man distinct
from the hundred millions of our people,
yet one of them, Theodore Roosevelt, a
true American possessed of sounu
judgment, broad knowledge and un-
tlinching courage is honest and a
sympathetic patriot.
The knowledge possessed by this
statesman is wide and practical, gained
from study and actual experience with
men. While a student at Harvard. while
Police Commissioner, Rough Rider and
Governor, he obtained the information
which enable him as President to act
wisely and permanently for the benitit
of all people, to clearly prophesy results
and avoid destructive causes. He COM
prehends his fellow men. His intellect
is keen; he is observant, active, interest
ed. Of men he is not suspicious nor
overtrustful until he knows them.
When convinced that President
McKinley's cabinet was capable and
patriotic he retained it. AS Knox pos
sessed valuable information concerning
corporations and detested the buying Of
unfair privileges, he preferred him for
Attorney General. Confident of Admiral
Dewey's calmness and bravery, he
selected him to command at Manila.
In fact, he naturally knows men.
This insight into character is a
primary quality of a great man, For,
there no man who has not knowledge
of men as equals is destined to lead his
country to higher civil plan, which
uplifts each citizen. Caesar, in an era
of war, treated his fellowmen as equals.
Cromwell ironwilled, iron-handed,
over threw civil despotism with military
despotism, and although he established
commonwealth, denied his subjects
representative government not recogniz-
ing their right to equal opportunity.
Is not the shrewd commonplace
American statesmen for advanced over
the illustrious Cromwell who desired
order rather than justice, might rather
than right? Cromwell was military,
ever brutal; Roosevelt is orderly, frank,
and humane.
He has tact and sound judgment.
During the coal strike of 1902, serious
time when prolonged suffering and
when the miners remained firm for
their rights, he resisted the coal mag
mates and recognizing the Just demand
Of the miner, steered toward perman-
ent peace between capital and labor.
Tactfully yet frankly he met both for
ces. The two giants recognized each
other. Industrial Democracy was
aided by world mans effort for the
common people, in the face of the de-
mands of the autocrats by some of
whom the labor leaders had been pur-
chased. Europe said of him, '"Roose-
welt done a big thing"
Good judgment is shown also in this
great mans private life. "To work
well and think clearly one must be
sound in body" is the belief of him,
who exercises daily, who can hunt for
months in the jungles of Africa and
can make eight speeches in twelve
hours enroute through the states. Ma
poleon Bonapart, the greatest military
genius of the world owed his success
to vigorous physical training and the
resulting clear mind.
Roosevelt is fearless nd courageous in
the decision of momentuous question
This extraordinary decisive power marks
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whom no greater ex It's in the world
today and destines aim to guide af-
fairs of state. Feal ,essly he took up
California's educational problem when
she felt burdened by the japanese, and
by correspondence arrived at an under
standing with the Island Empire,
Boldly Immediately he denounced the
conspirators of his own party at Albany.
Courageously he refused to recognize
as an equal the Senator, who purchased
membership in the Senate of the U. S.
Again he struck for moral reform, a
vital blow when he espoused the
cause of Lindsay, the friend of un-
fortunate boys. These were honest
acts in the present erasof party control.
His courage ard fearlessness are
honest. With disregard of race, color
or condition he believes in a square
deal for every man. Strauss define the
square deal as. Equal justice to all
guarding the rights of capital and