The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-10

Conflict with human r1SnCN. ibis WIS
the guiding principle OF the life OF
Theodore Roosevelt. He Is immortal
because of the devotion to that prin
cipal.
1.-THE most striking work OF his life
was that he aroused the world to see
the inevitable disaster which would
follow unless the Hun was stopped al
his own border.
"Even when we were begged to re
main neutral, begged in the newspa
pers, by the clergy, at the movies. by
German propaganda and by our gov
eminent to be neutral, Theodore
Roosevelt was not neutral thank God
He went against the mob, against the
mob mind and the mob spirit, and only
the perspective enables the world to
see how much Theodore Roosevelt did
to waken America from its smug leth'
argy.
why did he do It? 1t was because
his whole life was protest against
the strong violating the rights of the
weak
Roosevelt held that in democra
cy every man is created equal, but has
right to take his stand and contend
for a, more enduring and more per
| feet democracy.
IAN American citizen is not made
he is forever in the making. He must
go on and on until he shall become a
/ Just man in a Just state America TIC
Rooseve was a place where man
may contend for more enrolling de
! mocracy.
What America Meant to Him.
| America meant to Roosevelt land
where a man has the opportunity tc
| work and a land which lays upon him
also the obligation to work He believ
! ed in the unity Of work, that it digni
! files him who does thte work and who
receives It.
HE believed in God; in the work Of
/ the nation; in the quarrying Of Its
stone and carble, as. we'll as in the
erection Of It's temples and statues; il
i the draining of bitches, as well as II
| the lighting OF it's altar fires; In the
music Of its shuttles and its looms, as
we'll as in the music OF its oratorios
| Thus he united the work of the nation
| with its arts and religion.
! "The basic thought Of Roosevelt was
character. When the monuments we
rear to him shall crurnlble to the dust
the influence Of his spirit will preside
| through futn1re years when justice
grapples with injustice and hate com
bats love.
Character has made him immortal
and has made his rouse a great and
ruling house.
| Contrast him end his house with
! the house of certain ether man who
] wished to rule over men, One Of the
withered arm, the cancercus throat
and the scared brain, sought power
that he might use it for his own house
/ "The other who sleeps where the
sweet wind from the bay fans the
grass above the sod, sought power that
he might use 1T for every just cause.
/ The End Of Two Houses.
! THE first who sought power hides
! in Holland castle, and his son sets a,
! wine strewn table on far away Is
! land. But Quentin Roosevelt, child Oh
his father felt oblidged to give to the
utmost for human liberty, and he
sleeps under the peoples of France
j One house shall be forgotten the other
/ shall live as long as men any where
seek 20 build e. happy state
At the close OF the address Of Mr.
Perkins, Mayor Lotion heartily and
i sincerely thanked him for his coming
/ to Keokuk to assist In TIE services and
for the great pleasure and profit Keo
lvr1k people had received from his ora
ton.
Afterward number Of people wend
hack to the stage to express their ap
preciation Of the address and to meet
Mr.. Perkins personally. He is the war
den OF the Fort Madison penitentiary
i,sst now, formerly was pastor in Siou,
City. and Is the author of a book writ
| ten for Rotarians.