New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-10
German Newspapers Belabor
Roosevelt and American Dollar
Frankfrter Zeiung Declares Sweden May Send Ship to
United States Bring Her Counrymen OF Military age
Home Consumption Story Widely Circulated

The evening edltlon OF the Tldhh-
furter Zoitung" of October 10 contains
this special dispatch from Stockholm:
THE Stockholm correspondent OF
"The New York World" informed his
paper Of the excitement which was
caused by the CONSUMPTION Of Swedish
citizens in America. and received an
answer that the rumor of the conscrip-
ton of the Swedes was totally un-
founded, and that the bill providing
for tho CONSUMPTION of foreigners,
which had been introduced in Con-
gress. was withdrawn. Because Con-
press. it was added, adjourned on Oc-
,ober 6 the matter cannot be taken up
again. If II will ever be taken up at all,
before December.
This statement fatty contradicts
other news from America. 1t is a mat
ter of fact that numerous Swedes IN
America have been forced TO join the
army. The movement against emigra-
ton. which takes away tens of thou
sands Of young and sturdy men every,
is rapidly growing.
Would Charter Steamer
"The Engineers Club. of Lund, sub
mitted to the Swedish Foreign Office
radical propositions how to save the
Swedes in America from being called
TO the colors. 1t is proposed to send
one of the largest Gothenburg steam
ors. eventually escorted by men Of war,
10 America and to bring back the able
bodied Swedes of military age. To
counter balance the increased food dill
fculties it is proposed to expel an equal
number Of foreigners.
O, October 3 the "Frankfurter lei
tunr" carried the following article by
Gold. captioned "Weakness OF Mr.
Rooseyelt's Memory:
Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt recently
published exposures about Venezuelan
events of 1902 and the part played by
Germany. These exposures are of some
historical interest, in so far as they
tend 10 characterize the mental condi'
ton Of the former President Of the
United States. for II may be seen from
these exposures that Mr.. Roosevelt rs
a man who either purposely gasconades
or suffers from a lamentable weakness
Of memory. Il is not the first time
that we are confronted with the prob
lem Of explaining Mr.. Roosevelts state,
ments by the one or the other menta
deficiency. / cannot help remembering
lust now an episode of 'Teddy's' life
which ! witnessed as a newspaper man
at happened in June, 1914. Mr.
Roosevelt had come to Madrid to attend
the wedding Of his son and the daugh
4or of the American Ambassador there
The welcome extended TO him by The
Madrid press testified. in spite OF the
Spanish courtesy, that the 'Rougf
Rider Of Cuba and his wild luminosity
against the Spanish nation were stu
fresh in the memory of the population
The great number of policemen on duty
for the protection of Roosevelt gave
evidence Of the fears OF the authorized
that the common people might recall
the past and act in their own way. II
was fact much commented on that
the King of Spain and Roosevelt had
travelled on the same train from the
frontier 10 Madrid without taking no
tee Of each other
These facts were considered by the
German newspaper correspondents a
sufficient reason not TO spoil, IN any
way. the character of a purely private
affair such as Mr.. Roosevelt's visit
really was. and they did not yield 10
the temptation of interviewing the
glorious discoverer of South America
They thought their demeanor was the
better justified because Mr. Roosevelt
lad hardly made one step during the
previous years which was not duly re-
ported by an army of newspaper men.
Sends for Reporters
"But they had reckoned without
Roosevelt For they had hardly made
their decision when a messenger from
the American Embassy informed then
that Mr.. Roosevelt would regard it 3
special favor to talk to the foreign
newspaper correspondents. Courtesy
did not permit to decline the invita-
ton sent by a former head of the
United States. We went. without any
Enthusiasm, 10 the American Embassy
We were disappointed, TO a certain de
gree, 10 find out that the man of siren
nous life was Il nearsighted, twinkling
stout legged gentleman of pretty vulgai
appearance, looking more like a small
business man than a wild cayalryman
ard who astonished US only by the ex
traordinary development of his mouth
His whole body really seemed to b,
nothing but the framework of mouth
from which Immediately flowed tn,
Spanish Impressions and the Soutf