Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-04-26

Washington, April 2O.-After Gil
said and done, the human note is don
inant in politics; the human interes
is the determining interest. Righ
here is brought home the compelling
these who believe, as the editor OF tn
Detroit News says, that: Politics il
the large sense is the endeayor to pro
vide for opportunity, justice, comfor
and the means OF development anon,
all the people,
| The same writer, in en- appreciation
Of the man who is battling for socia
| justice fer all the people as against
| control by big interests, special priv
ileges and political bosses, says:
The human element has never been
lacking from Theodore Roosevelts
public endeavors. He has always be-
lieved that man was not made for the
government, but the government for
man. And the public to him is not
an abstract noun; it is something he
has lived with, knows, and loves. AS
boy in precarious health he played
about the farmers turning up the new
soil, whose aroma he breathed for its
vitalizing qualities. AS young man
he herded cattle with the men OF the
plains. AS a police commissioner he
walked the night beats with police
men and helped them in their dan
gerous work. AS soldier he slept
in open fields with his Rough Rid
ers. AS hunter he has taken his
turn at the fires to keep them b.a2-
ing the long night through. AS a
president he has met the people OF
every state, and man with family
or woman with baby never
escaped his eye. 1t was no mere cam.
paign cleverness, but the deep convicS
ton of his heart, when he said that
the American was mighty good fell
low, but his wife was a better fell
low. And now as private citizen he
has played and tumbled with the ten
ement children Of New York, has
lunched with the workingmen of
many factories, has gone out to ex-
anime for himself the problem OF
abandoned farms, and has gone home
with the newsboy to see how things
were at the house. With one OF the
greater ancients he could we'll say, i
am a man; therefore, nothing human
is alien to me-
And his official acts-what were
they? The conservation OF the peoples
mines and forests, the purity OF the
peoples foods; the inspection OF the
peoples meat; stopping the slaughter
OF Russian mujiks and Japanese SOL
diers; prosecution of various robbers
of the housewives pocketbook or
rifier of the peoples savings banks;
sending 16 battleships around the
world to warn off disturbers OF the
worlds peace. Everywhere and al
ways working for that which affected
most closely every citizen OF the re-
public, great or humble.
Theodore Roosevelt was born with
a silver spoon in his mouth, but he
never used it. He was born with an
other quality far more precious,
which was a wide range OF human
He knows the long hours
Of the working girl, and her many
trials-and he knows the cause OF it,
too. He knows the risk OF the man in
hazardous employment and the acct
dents which so tragically cut short
his usefulness-and all of us remem-
Der now he blazed forth in wrath
when the supreme court OF his state
said that those MANNED workers or
heir orphaned families had no claim
against society on account OF such
oss. In the last campaign he went
% another state and campaigned
against a judge who had ruled that
he manned workingman was not en-
Tiled to automatic compensation.
Theodore Roosevelt is so intensely
patriotic that he will bare his head
% an empty sleeve of blue; but he is
80 intensely and practically human
hat he will go out and do battle for
he man who lost a limb or life on
he field of industry, and for his fam
ly. And he will throw the whole
weight OF his influence and reputa-
ion and ability against the system
Which wears women down to wan,
White ghosts in the struggle for sub
'lstence. Theodore Roosevelt is a
over of his kind; man stirred from
he heart and reinforced by the head:
man with courage OF tongue and
courage of fist to attack the common
enemy OF happy hui
nanity.
Many have tried to draw compar-
sons between Roosevelt and other
,reat men. 1t Is significant that no
mall man will serve to compare with
lin. 1t is more significant that no
reat man with dominating streak
4 badness running through him will
erve to compare with him. You re-
member how they tried it with Ma
oleon-'The Man on Horseback
tut the comparison was a caricature
nd the people laughed He liz, how
yer, comparable to Lincoln, who
nore than any president before or
ince, until Roosevelt came, empha-
lied the human note. Lincoln lived
a and loved the people. He loved
he black man IL darkness and In