Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-25
Then President Referred Con-
tenptuouSIy to Kaiser, Gar
and Mikado; They Helped
Him to Love Democracy.
WILLIAM DESCRIBED
AS JUMPY CREATURE
Nicholas ''PreposterouS Little
Creature as Absolute Auto
Crat Of 15O,000,000 Peo-
pie, u is Pungent Comment.
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New York, Aug. 24.-Joseph
Bucklin Bishop, for thirty years a
personal friend of Col. Theodore
| Roosevelt, and who five years be-
fore the former presidents death,
was commissioned by him ITO write
the history of the period which COW
cred his public career" presents in
the September issue of Scribner's
Magazine, the first of a series of
papers which gives for the first time
many interesting sidelights on the
life OF the famous American.
The paper, entitled Roosevelt
Peacemaker," selected and arranged
from the former presidents public
and private correspondence, amount
ing to more than 10000 letters,
deals with Mr.. Roosevelt's efforts to
end The war between lsassia sti.d Ja-
pan and which resulted in the Ports
mouth peace conference of 1906.
Japan Took First Step.
For the first time, apparently, IS
revealed the fact that Japan made
the initial overtures for peace. Four
days after the great japanese naval
victory over Rojestvenskys fleet in
the sea of Japan on May 27, 1905,
the minister of foreign affairs Of
Japan, the letters show, cabled Min
lister Takahira. in Washington, to in
woke Roosevelts aid as a mediator.
II was amused" wrote the presi-
cent, "by the way in which they asked
mo to invite the two belligerents to-
gether directly on my own motion and
initiative. 1t reminded me of the
request for contributions sent by carr
CT gryA Nf11i tan nff hn1 1Yi.nf.gs
wherein they were asked to make a
voluntary contribution of ten per
cent of their salary. 1t showed a
certain naivete on the part of the
Japanese"
Did job Alone.
According to his biograrher, every
step in the negotiations extending
over period of three months, was
taken by Mr.. Roosevelt without the
aid of any of his mosr trusted coun-
sc ellors. John Hay, his secretary of
state, being critically i'll, Secretary
Root having resigned from the cabi-
net many months earlier and Secre-
tary Taft being absent in the Philip
pines.
"One reads the thick volumes of
his correspondence with amazement
bordering on incredulty,' writes Mr..
Bishop. ut is incredible that one man
could do so much and so we'll. In no
other task of his life was the abnor-
NAL energy, mental and physical, of
Theodore Roosevelt put to a severer
test and from none did he emerge
more triumphantly. His activity was
as tireless as his resourcefulness was
inexhaustible."
Job Delicate One.
The presidents activity was direct
ed, he said, to mot only steadily and
irresistbly forcing the two warning
nations into a conference but
bringing other nations like England
France and Germany to the support
of his efforts. If Russia baked and
showed signs of refusal, he persuaded
the kaiser to bring pressure upon the |
czar in the interest of peace. If Japan
showed similar signs, England was
appealed to, to bring pressure upon
her. In the end Germany alone really |
helped, and Roosevelt gave unstinted
praise to the kaiser ever afterward
for what he did then"
In all of this correspondence the |
colonel wrote without restraint or
reservation" In confidential letter
to Secretary Hay he referred to the
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