Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-08
PAY TR 'UTE
 TO RCvSEVfL1,
 AMERICAN CITIZEN
Foreign Press Pay Tribute to the Life and Character of the True Ameri- can Patriot.

New York, Jan. 7.-Mayor Hyland last night sent the following telegram to Mrs. Roosevelt at Oyster Bay:
 "In this hour of your great bereave- ment permit me to extend to you in the name of the people of New York, the sincere sympathy that we all feel for you. Your loss is shared by the entire nation"
 The Colone's death was termed a loss to the world in the resolutions adopted by the board of aldermen.
 The National Association for the advancement of colored people was one of the first organizations to call a special meeting and in resolutions adopted, by the association, he was mourned as "the greatest friend of the American negro in public life"
 Missoula, Mont, Jan. 7.--Speaking of the death of Colonel Roosevelt, former United States Senator John M. Dixon, National chairman of the Pro- gressive party in 1912 said here to- day:
 "His death at this time is nation al calamity, when some of the big ones at the top of our economic so- ciety are tending toward Bolshevism one way and some at the bottom want law and order abandoned the other way. We need him to help us hold the steering gear of the ship of state in the middle course"
 Paris, Jan. 7.-All the newspapers publish eulogistic articles on the death of Colonel Roosevelt, declaring that America loses in him, one of her greatest men and France one of her best friends.
 His death" says the Petit Parisien "is for us an immense loss. France may have in America friends just as ardent and sincere, but not a more impetuous supporter"
 The Matin says:
 "He was great man and what is better still, great soul"
 The Journal questions "whether the present government in the United States would have been able to enter the war so completely without the campaign carried out by Colonel Roosevelt.
 London, Jan. 7G-In discussing the death of Theodore Roosevelt, the Times says this morning:
 "In politics, as in all else, he was a vigorous fighting man and dealt hard blows. His opponents smarted under them, but the most determined enc mics in that field were just as proud of him as great citizen as were the rest of the American people.
 "He cannot be ranked with the lofty creative geniuses of politics, but his name will go down among those of American presidents with some- thing of character that attaches to the name of Lincoln; as one who was great abiding force in morals as we'll as politics and who served his country with unwearied earnestness and zeal"
 The Post says:
 'It is not every voice that carries across the Atlantic, but Roosevelt $ did. It was listened to here almost as attentively as in America, and it's | familiar, downright accents will be missed. The world can Ill spare It's big men now"
 The Chronicle says: | History places some big things ir his record, but bigger than any, per. haps, was the challenging impact o1 his personality on the world in which he lived"
 "With Roosevelt there disappears from the world great American anc a great friend of Britain" says the Daily Mail. "He was ever a fighter continuously challenging criticism, as must man whose primal quality is pure energy rather than pure reason We think of him as man who also made great place in the world by dint of his great and very American qualities"
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