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New-York tribune., 1919-01-07
Life of Former President
Filled With Stirring Events
He Lived Life of Half Dozen Men-His Nigor Swept
Everything Before His PatE-His Career Was
Battle Against Obstacles From Early Youth

thc HE Of Theodore Roosevelt reads
Ike the lives CT half dozen men, so
packed is it with varied swift-moving
events. Spend and be spent he
once gave as his motto, and it describes
very accurately the spirit of his sixty
one years. To every activity that in
terested him he gave himself utterly
with an absorption and attention that
swept away every obstacle
He was born with grea. physical
handicaps- AS boy he was pigeon
breasted and asthmatic These handi-
caps he not only removed by vigor-
Gus exercise ct college and by an out
door life later, but actually built up a
physique Of extraordinary ruggedness.
He was very uear-sightcd He lost
an eye while President He picked UP
an assassir's bullet in the campaign
of 1912. He lost an ear in 1918. None
OF these things seemed to daunt him
IN the least. He fought on just as hard
as ever and just as happily to the very
last days Of his life. AS he gave his faith
on the night OF October IA, 1912, in a
speech delivered five minutes after the
bullet Of John Schrank pierced his
chest:
Il do not care a rap about being
shot, not a rap. The bullet is in me
now, so that l cannot make very
long speech. But will try my best.
First of all want to say this about
myself. l have altogether too many
important things to think of to pay
any heed or feel any concern over
my own death.
Il want you to understand that
am ahead of the game anyway. No
man has had a happier life than |
have had, happy life in every way.
have been able to do certain things
that l greatly wished to do, and l am
interested in doing other things.
II have had an AL time in life,
and l am having it now
In summary of Colonel Roosevelt's
life there are at least five distinct ca
reers of success and distinction that
must be noted
l. Hist0rioa-Two years after leav-
ing Harvard he published history Of
the War of 1872 that is still the au-
thoritative work on the subject. He
has two admirable volumes in the
American Statesman Series, on Gou-
verneur Morris and Thomas Hart Ben
son. THE winning Of the West" in
four volumes, his most ambitious his
torical work, appeared in 1896 His
"Oliver Cromwell" was published in
1901.
?. Soldicr-He was commissioned
lieutenant colonel of the Rough Riders
III 1898 and fought with them in Cuba
with bravery and distinction, return
ing home their colonel.
3. Statesman-In his public life he
was Assemblyraan, 1SS1-1SS3; Republi-
can candidate for Mayor CT New York,
1886: member of the United States
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arbitration when, in May, 1902. he sub
mitted to The Hague the pious fund
case, whici, had for many years proved
source of friction with Mexico The
following January he induced England,
Germany and italy, already threatening
the ports of Venezuela. TO JOIN with
this country in submitting to Tie
Hague their claims. Though the United
States Jared badly IN the decision, lie
accepted the result with a philosophy
that was TO serve as another striking
example when great nation lost 20
this country in an international boun
Diary dispute.
That same month. January, 1903, the
United States entered into conven-
tion with Great Britain to submit to
a joint tribunal the arbitration of the
Alaska boundary dispute, which. since
the purchase Of Alaska from Russia.
had been Il source Of contention and
at times a real menace to peace.
In October, 1904, when it was feared
that the first Hague conference was go
have no successor. Mr.. Roosevelt
caused his Secretary of State TO issue
a preliminary invitation to the second
meeting. The Russo-Japanese War
caused delay, however. and when
peace was at last declared the Amer
can President chivalrously granted %
the Car the privilege of renewing The
invitation. But that this countrv'S
Chief Executive had made the initial
move was clearly recognized and made
matter Of record So portentous
were the results of that conference
that it would be impossible 10 deal
fully with them here, but there may
be cited as chief among them the fact
that the United States had negotiated,
and the Senate ratified. eleven treaties
having for their purpose the mitiga-
tion Of the horrors of war and the pro-
lection of non-combatants and twenty
four arbitration treaties.
During the terribly destructive
Russo Japanese War Mr. Roosevelt.
who enjoyed the unbounded confidence
of both belligerents. watched closely
for the right moment to offer his good
offices to restore peace. The Ports
mouth peace conference, in the sum
mer of 1905, was the result Nor did
he halt with the meeting of the con-
ferrees. When an agreement seemed
hopeless, by direct appeal to the EN-
perors of Japan and Russia and the
enlistment of the assistance of the
Emperor of Germany a settlement
was reached. For this service the
Nobel peace prize WAS conferred On
Mr. Roosevelt the following year.
When be came into the Presidency
he fell heir to the ancient controversy
Co,,ff,,sted os, ,,eof saooa
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street. he was handicapped physically
from childhood, but ne Inherited much
both physically and mentally from his
lowland Scotch, Dutch, French Huguc-
not and Gaelic ancestors. He mas de-
scended directly from claas Martensen
van EooseYelt, who left Holland for
this country in te49.
The Roozeyelt family has bees polit-
jcaliy actirc on Manhattan bland for
more thas 200 years. isaac Roosevelt
wag a delegate 10 tho convention In
f571 wlsieh gent de!czates 10 the origi-
nal rontlnent1s Cor8scas. lie alao was
n pe4tqf II fhe Cosnm,fsee oy ODe Hun.
41ed ii t.'oi4lted in Hew York CATS 10 re-
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Built Up His Strength

More than frail as a child, Theodore
Roosevelt began. almost as soon
as he could, realize his handcaps,
to overcome them. He suffered greatly
from asthma, which retarded his
growth. He described himself as
pigeon n-breased and asthmatic." SO
serious WAS his condition that he was
taken to Egypt one winter for his
health, but his asthmatic condition
continued until the life of the Western
prairies banished it forever. He also
was extremely nearsighted and all his
life was compelled to wear glasses.
Guided by his father, he acquired in
his efforts for health a great love of
the outdoors and of animal life. He
spent days wandering the Long Island
woods, and his physical imperfectons
did not hinder him in the slightest
from being "a regular boy" according
TO those who shared his play and
rambles.
Deep as was his anxiety to fit him
self for athletics, he had not accom-
plished his object When he entered
Harvard in 1876. He was a Slight
youth. only average in height, with
fiat chest and narrow shoulders, and
weighed but 1875 pounds. He stood out
no whit from the hundreds of other
youngsters, and his classmates believed
none less likely to achieve distinction.
Football and baseball were barred to
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Gained RenOaUn IN First
Speech Before Assembly

Politics, which had been a game"
in his college days, became Colonel
Roosevelt's tcareer when he stopped
out into the world. He chose it with
as much care and studied it as faith
fully as other men learned their pro
fcssons. He abandoned the study of
law and devoted himself to the prob
lens that confronted his Assembly
district
This decision was not at first ap-
proved by his family. He was told, it
is said by one of his commentators,
that he would find no one at the meet
low politicians" He replied that if
such was the case they belonged to the
Governing class and he meant if he
could to be OF the governing class
Jake Hess was then boss OF the
so-callcd "brownstone district" and
young Roosevelt led the fight against
his candidate for the Assembly. Roosc-
Tclt himself was nominated and elected
from the old 21st District and took
his scat at Albany in January, 1882.
he was reelected for the two succeed
ing years.
First Speech Sensation
Elected as n Republican, he was n
,'"S, u e"c 'iHoIity IN tne Assem-
ply and unknown politically. His first
speech, however, made a sensation.
His opportunity came when a fellow
Assemblyman made speech in which
he dealt with many historical facts.
koosevelts speech, although i'm
promptn, showed such KNOWLEDGE of
these facts and such grasp OF the
subject that he was widely compli-
mented by opponents and supporters.
For several years attempts had been
made to pass a reform charter for New
York City. All failed because the
threatened departments united and
were too strong for the reformers. AS
scmblyman Roosevelt made bis attacks
on certain departments Of New York
City separately, and bowlcd them over
one by ono. His rise in rank in the
Assembly was startingly rapid. The
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to enforce all the laws and would not
stultify himself. Moreover he main
tanned that the best way 10 obtain the
repeal OF ar obnoXious law was by en-
forcing it rigidiy, ana not by ignor
ing IT,
His unheralded personal tours of in
spection about the city by night caught
many policeman mapping, and re-
suited IN many humorous situat, ,ons,
unit! the force had thoroughly assimi-
lated the idea that their chief was
not man to be trifcd with.
From the presidency of the New York
police force he VAS called By Presiden,
Mckinley to BE Assistant Secretary of
the Navy, in AprM, 1897. There again
his energy and quick mastery CT detail,
contributed much 10 the successful ad-
ministration of the department ana the
preparation Of the navy Tor the most
brilliant feats in naval warfare II the
history OF the world.
Foresaw Spanish War
From the very first he forsaw, il is
said, The possibility OF conflict with
Spain, and he sev about preparing his
depal tmeLC 1or Il. He pashed repairs
OF the ships, worked earnestly for the
navy personnel Bill and visited the
various naval reserves throughout tne
country. He left nothing unGone that
would in his opinion secure the high
est efficiency in the service when the
time for action came. Ii is said that
he it was who first realized the tre-
mendous opportunity that the war
would open in the Far East, and who
had Dewey. in whom he recognized
the right man for the place, appoin+ed
to command the eastern squadron.
Many naval experts agree that the re-
markable skill in craftsmanship dis
played by the American gunner5 was
due TO his foresight He saw the ne
cessity OF practice, and he thought it
the best kind of economy to burn up
ammunition in acquiring skill.
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er Of Theodore RooseueIt-A Bottle From The Start

opening tc steam navigation of the
great inland waterway.
Father Helped c. l.. Brace
Colonel Roosevelt's father, also
named Theodore, was a man with the
same practical interest in his fell
low man that his son manifested. He
was the backcr of Charles Loring Brace
in his work of gathering the forgotten
waits from the city's streets. 1t was
the elder Theodore Roosevelt who went
to Washington after the first Battle of
Bull Run and warned President Lin
coin that he must get rid of Simon
Cameron as Secretary Of War, with the
result that Mr.. Stanton took his place.
On the side oil his mother Martha
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Cleveland Administration. and. with
Horatio Seymour and Seth Green. was
one OF the original Conm mssioners of
Fisheries
Nicholas J. Roosevelt, grandfather Of
the President, built the first steamboat
on Western inland waters, and in it
made the first trip by steam from
Pittsburgh TO New Orleans in 1910.
He. had been closely associated with
Robert Fulton in the promotion Of
Tteam navigation, and the SUCCESS Of
fulton's invention in the East, fol-
lowed by personal survey by Nicho-
las Poosevelt Of the waters Of the Ohio
and MississipDi rivers. resulted In the
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him because of his poor eycsight, he
was too light for the crew and his
physique was unsuited for the track
team, so he never was able to wear
the coveted "H" Of a Harvard team
He was not barred from the gymna-
stun, and continued to build up his
strength by all sorts of exercise. Box
ing he found of aid to him physically
and he rapidly distinguished himself
with the padded gloves. Many a pair
of glasses were broken on his nose
in his bouts which, il friendly, lacked
nothing in vigor. He often refused
10 remove his glasses and probably is
the only man who ever took the chance
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Boy Was Father TO Man,
RooseveA's Life Sho,us

Never was the old adage "The boy is
father 70 the man" more thoroughly
proved than in the career Of Colonel
Roosevelt. As boy he faced and over
came his obstacles and won his vic
tories with the same steadfastness,
perseverance and fearlessness which
served him ii later life.
Born October 27, 1888 in the old
fsrily rene, at @6 East Twentieth
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sist the power of Britain and aid the
Continental army Later he was a
delegate TO the first Provincial Con-
eress and a member for three terms
Of the New York State Senate.
Robert B. Roosevelt, an uncle of the
cX-President, was member of Con-
gress shortly after the close of the
Civil War He was American Minister
to .he Netherlands during the second
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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-05-10
WORTHY SONS OF WORTHY FATHERS

Richard Folsom Cleveland, the son of the late President
Cleveland. has had two honors bestowed on him IN princeton.
He was voted "the most respected man in the class" and
1.-The man who had done the most for Princeton. These are
high enconiums to come from classmates in college. The
Young man who received such homage and such honors is
still in the military service of his country. 1t is too DAD tnat
the father is not alive to share in the pride over such a son.
And why should it not be the aim of every young man
to achieve such a record? What else is worth SO mucn?
What else is worth while? The world is not only looking
for young men of that kind, but it is the only kind OF young
men that may now be considered worth while. Service,
manhood, duty, all these things stand for more than ever
before in the history of the world. All those who do not
strive for these higher things properly belong to the riffraff
|aHd viii be added to the folsom and jetsom of life, the drift
wood that merely clogs the channels of great human activi-
It's. FFsFaI
Richard Folsom Cleveland has set an example for every
college boy in America and those who are thinking OF the
lesser things that sometimes attract college boys might as
well be pulled out of college. They are wasting their time
in such places, for they can never realize any OF the ideals
that are supposed to be wrapped up in a college education.
And the sons of the late Theodore Roosevelt are all sons of
nature. They are taking hold of life seriously. Is your
son doing that? Or, if you are the son in the case, are you
setting for yourself the ideal of like kind, one that will make
your father proud and your mother glad?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-05-10
ANTICIPATING THE JUDGMENT DAY

One of the most important documents to come out OF
the peace conference will be the report of the special COM
mission on responsibility for the war, about which some
thing has been heard and which has now been reviewed and
edited by the council of four.
Il may be believed that the results of this exhaustive
inquiry will make available for the pen of history many au-
thenticated documents not hitherto brought to public atten-
ton. In a general way, of course, the conclusions confirm
the findings that have been reached on testimony and dOcu-
mentary evidence long ago adduced. The world at large
has been convinced that Germany and Austria Hungary were
responsible for the war. The only defense against the
charge has been the feeble one that the Russian mobiiza-
ton precipitated it. But, very likely, this commission
sheds much more light on the matter, and the alibi so elabo-
rately framed by Berlin has been utterly destroyed as a con-
sequence.
criminal record and prepare specific cases. 1t hands down
thirtytwo indictments, where the evidence is overwhelming
and the enormity of the offense justfies bringing the cases
to trial.
There remains the question of the tribunal, one compe-
tent to order the arrest of individuals and try them-a whole
people, or a nation, cannot be proceeded against criminaly.
The commissions conclusion as to this is that 1t is entirely
feasible to constitute an international court and to arrest
such persons, however high their station may be"-which
apparently, points to the ex-kaiser himself. 1t is also held
that any nation may set up a competent tribunal for the trial
of those charged with crimes committed against its people.
The guilt is personal, and the guilty should not go I'M
punished. Valuable as this report is historically, it ought
to be of more material usefulness in laying the foundation
for proceedings to bring the chief conspirators in the great
crime to the bar of justice.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-05-10
MIR. BURLEsON's SPY SYSTEM

The postmaster general, who is also called political mas
ter general, is constantly getting into trouble. He is a misfit
TO such an extent that his own party, or many OF its mem
bers, are hoping that he may get out He belongs 10 an an
cient regime of Texas slave drivers and he is said TO nave
made his great fortune out of the employment of negro con-
vct labor. He acts like an overbearing bully, and IN ms
control of the wire lines of the country he has done many
things that seem like outrages. Among these outrages are
the employment of spies who report to him or to his under
strappers every employee who expresses or thinks anything
that savors of lack of loyalty to the domineering head OF the
department. 1t is a new use of the spy system in the Amer
lean government, a thing that we have never viewed with
complacency in this country. To surround employees win
spies and secret whisperers is to subject Americans to hu-
mutations that will become hard to bear. The spy belongs
to the old regimes of czars and kaisers, and they have no
proper place in an American republic. That Burleson has
been employing such methods and that he has been acting
upon information so gathered seems to admit of little or no
doubt. 1t is the introduction of the stiletto in politics and
in the public service. In this country officials should be
confronted with public evidence and not disposed OF on Sc
cret and often underhanded devices. If it is to go on the fell
low who is the drtiest informer will be the preferred serv-
ant, an intolerable condition. That is one of the inevitable
features of government operation, or, speaking more &C
lcurately, political operation, for the two are inseparable.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-05-10
ORLANDO'S

Premier Orlando returned to Rome assured of parlia-
mental approval of his course. He got it with a unanimity
seldom accorded to statesmen of any country.
This only serves to bring into sharper contrast Mr.. Will
sons lack of mandate from America. A writer in the Echo
de Paris referred pertnently to the fact that the president
was "solemnly condemned by the voters OF the United
States last November. This fact has penetrated the Euro
pean consciousness quite completely. Mr.. Wilson in his
spectacular stand against Italy's claims insisted once more
on describing himself as Americas spokesman, but If he is
that it is only by virtue of his selfappontment to the head
of our peace delegation in utter disregard of the voters at
the polls last fall.
There must be times when even the president himself,
stubborn as he is and reluctant to admit the wisdom of views
that do not coincide with his own, feels a sense of isolation
by reason of his lack of national mandate. His European
adventure has been marked by repeated disappointment.
Founded on enthusiastic presumption and initiated with
tremendous manifestations Of popular interest, it nears it's
end. There are few more enlightening episodes
in diplomatic history.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-05-10
NOW THE STRAW VOTE AGAIN

From this time forward we shall, no doubt, be treated to
frequent straw votes on presidential candidates. Thus a
newspaper at Fort Wayne Indiana, has just announced the
results OF one, in which, as might have been expected, local
pride obtrudes itself.
On the democratic side Vice President Marshall (f In
diana leads. The figures are: Marshall 427, Wilson BOT,
Bryan 296, McAdoo 80, Clark 80. In this connection it is in
teresting to read a contemporary political opinion expressed
by the ice-president, as reported in the following dispatch:
"El Paso, Tex, April aO-Vice-President Thomas
r. Marshall would send a sufficiently large force to
Russia to thoroughly exterminate the BOlshevik, he
declared here today on his way to Washington from
Phoenix, Ariz. This is no time for tempOrizing with
the Bolsheviki,' the vice president said"
On the republican side the figures are as follows: Wood
1856, Hughes 66S, Watson (f 1ndiana) CAB, Borah SOB, Perish
ing 39i. Lodge 172, Goodrich (of Indiana) Al, LOwden Al,
Root 81, Johnson 26, Sherman 20, New (of Indiana) IL. Per-
haps the most significant feature of these fig1les is the
suggestion of Mr.. Tafts continued failure to inspire the re-
publican imagination.
However, it is nearly fourteen months to the presiden-
tian convention, and today's straws are unreliable indications
of the way the wind will be blowing at this time in 1920.
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THE NATIONAL INCOME

Interest or taxes? That is the question that confronts
the American people today, and it is one from which they
cannot escape. There is no way out. A decision must be
made. Which shall we take?
The experience of paying federal income taxes Is one
that has come to most of us within recent months, but
to how much smaller an extent than it has come to the peo-
Die of Europe, or than it may come to us if we do not FULLY
and properly support the Fifth Victory loan!
In England today there is no man who earns $OV per
year. or more, who is not paying literally from such
earnings in the form of an income tax. Just to illustrate,
the man in England with an income of $500 per year is pay
ing over $1,000 Of it to his government as a war tax. Here IN
America, that same man, if married, would be paying only
about $50 as a war tax.
This will clearly emphasize the fact that we have by
no means reached the limit of war taxes. if our government
finds it necessary to pay its expenses in that manner.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-05-10
s'THE INSTRUMENT OF THE ALMIGHTY"

II am the instrument of the Almighty. am His sw1F0
His agent. Woe and death to all those who shall oppose
my will! Woe and death to those who do not believe my
mission! Woe and death to the cowardsr
The Tribune reprints these words of the once All High
est in Germany that they may serve as a warning against
too much sentiment in considering the peace terms which
are about to be imposed. A man who started out with such
an idea and a nation that followed such leadership have
to account for, and let us not quail when the &C
counting may seem hard to them.
This woe and death business has cost the world a great
price-two hundred billion dollars and twenty million hui
man lives-and it is time that we make an end of such de-
lusions and treat the perpetrators as ordinary criminals in
stead of heroes. Because men do such things on a large
scale, they are not thereby made better than those who kill
only one man at a time or who rob only one hen roost at a
time, instead of whole districts which they may have invad-
ed. AS for the woe and death ruler who imagined himself
Gods vicegerent, he is now little more than a gibbering lu-
natic living at Amerongen.