New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-02-10
LODGE EULOGIzES
FORMER PRESIDENT
Roosevelt Memorial Services in
House Of Representatives

Washington, Feb. 10.-In solemn
services within the house chamber
Yesterday, the nations leaders and
representatives of foreign govern
ments paid tribute to the memory OF
Theodore Roosevelt. Members of
congress, supreme court justices,
members of the cabinet, Army and
Navy officers and diplomats Of many
nations heard Senator Lodge, Of
Massachusetts,. praise Roosevelt as
statesman and as a man
Crowded galleries and the throng Of
men and women who could not gain
admission testified to the personal
feeling for the man whose death
shocked the world. 1t was this to
which Senator Lodge, a close friend
of the man he eulogized, referred
when he spoke these words in the
stiffness of the house chamber:
"A tower is fallen a star is set!
Alas. Alas! for Celn.
"The words Of lamentatiOn from the
old Moorish ballad, which in boyhood
We used to recite, must, I think, have
risen to many lips when the world was
told that Theodore Roosevelt was
dead But whatever the phrase, the
thought was instant and everywhere.
"Variously expressed you heard it
in the crowds about the bulletin
boards. from the man in the street
and the man on the railroads, from
the farmer in the fields. the women
in the shops, in the factories and in
the homes. The pulpit found in his
Iifa tayt SarroODS Tho ind on
the bench, the child at school, alike
paused for moment conscious of a
loss. The cry Of sorrow came from
men and women of all conditions, high
and low, rich and poor, from the
learned and the ignorant, from the
multitude who had loved and followed
and resisted him. The newspapers
pushed aside the absorbing reports of
the events of these Hateful days and
gave pages to the man who had died.
"Flashed beneath the ocean and
through the air went the announce
ment of Theodore Roosevelt's death,
and back came a worldwide response
from courts and cabinets. from press
and public, in other and distant
lands Through it all ran a golden
CLEANS so rarely in the somber for
malism Of public grief. It would seem
that here was a man, a private citi-
zen. conspicuous by no office, with no
glitter of power about him, no ability
to reward or punish, gone from earth
ly life. who must have been unusual
even among the leaders of men, and
who thus demands our serious con-
sideration.'
Senator Lodge was the only speak
err and the services were simple.
Prayers by the senate and house
chaplains and anthems and patriotic
hymns by the Marine Band added to
the stirring spiritual nature of the
services.
I'VE can not approach Theodore
Roosevelt along the beaten paths of
eulogy or satisfy ourselves with the
empty civilities of commonplace fu-
neral tributes" said Senator Lodge,
for he did not make his life journey
over main travelled roads nor was he
ever commonplace. Cold and pom
pous formalities would be unsuited to
him who was devoid Of affectation,
who was never self conscious, and to
whom pOsturtng to draw the public
gaze seemed not only repellant but
vulgar. In his spirit Of devotion to
truths simplicity, l shall try to speak
of him today
Referring to Roosevelt's inheritance
of com parative wealth, Senator Lodge
said: He lacked the spur of neces-
sity to prick the sides of his intent.
Theodore Roosevelt put be-
hind him temptation to q life of
sports and pleasure, to lettered ease,
to an amateurs career in one of the
fine arts, perhaps to IL money making
business.
How he refused to tread the pleas
ant paths that opened to him on all
sides and took the instant way which
led over the rough road of toll and
action, his life discloses.''
MI. Lodge outlined the life of the
man who came to play such a big
part in the nations life. With deli
cate health and near-sightedness in
childhood, he became by sheer hard
work an athlete and q rifle shot. This
was typical, said Mr.. Lodge. He spoke
of how Roosevelt persisted in the I'M
usual; how he made himself Il ma
tional figure in one year at the age
of "a while serving in the New York
state legislature; how he fought and
won for civil service reforms when
civil service was scoffed at by inf1u-
entail leaders and of how he applied
himself strenuously to the task of ex-
polling favoritism and politics from
the New York police force, through
which "a purely local office became
national in his hands. and his picture
appeared in the shops Of European ci-
les
AS assistant secretary OF the navy,
when he ordered Dewey to prepare for
Manila Bay before war came, as
colonel OF the Rough Riders regi-
n1ent at San Juan, as governor Of
New York, as vice president, and as
president. Mr.. Roosevelt6 career was
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