Arizona republican., 1919-10-06

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 BEING PUBLISHED.
 NEW YORK, oct. 5.-Delving into the mine of 150,000 letters which Theo- dore Roosevelt wrote during his pup lie career, Joseph Bucklin Bishop, the coloners biographer, in the October ls- sue of Scribner's magazine, brings to light a number of gems" in the lntl- mate correspondence between the for- mer president of the United States ana Sir George Otto Trevelyan, Bart, U. NJ. English statesman and author, with whom the great American enjoyed rare friendship covering 20 years.
 MT. Bishops paper, the second of the series. entitled Roosevelt and Tre- velyan," reveals the many sided Roose- welt as "an unsuitable reader of books, his warm sympathy for authors and his broad and profound knowledge Of an- cient and modern literature. Even amid the cares of the presidency, MT. Roosevelt, it is shown, maintained regular correspondence with leaders o1 literary and intellectual life both in this country and Europe. In Sir George Trevelyan, a nephew Of the historian, Macaulay, he found man singularly responsive to his own 1n- tellectual tastes and knowledge. The correspondence began when he was governor of New York and continued until few months before MT. Roose- velt's death.
 q certainly would not be willing to hold the presidency at the cost of fall- ing to do the things which make the real reason why care to hold it at all, he wrote to Sir George on May 2S, 1904. T had much rather be a real president for three years and half than a figurehead' for seven years and half I think I can truthfully say that I now have to my credit sum of substantial achievement-and the rest must take care of itself"
 Previously, in 1899, Trevelyan had sent Governor Roosevelt a copy of the first part of his history. HThe Ameri- can Revolution" which made a deep impression on its recipient and which he praised for tits interest, delightful humor, absolute -mindedness and exactness of narrative" an opinion which was shared by Senator Lodge and Elihu Root, both of whom later joined with Roosevelt in buying a silver loving cup and sending it to Sir | George as a token of their apprecia- ton. Roosevelt, his biographer says. was always on the alert for writers of only 'even moderate fame" and of en- couraging them with friendly letters and invitations to visit him at the white house or Oyster Bay.
 The books that made the president happy covered a remarkable range, history, fiction, philosophy, travel, zoology, orinthology, anthropology, re- | ligion and art and he said they gave him ease and relaxation he could get in no other way, mot even on horseback" Statements and apothegms character | istically Rooseveltian abound in this collection of letter. Some of them are here reproduced for the first time in any newspaper:
 "A great free people owes it to itself and to mankind not to sink into help lessness before the powers of evil" Unfortunately for us, small men do most of the historic teaching in the i colleges. The great historian must have the scientific spirit, able to mar | shal and weigh the facts"
 | The presidential office tends to put a premium upon a mans keeping out of trouble rather than upon his accom- plishing results. The electorate is very apt to vote with it's back to the future.'
 T do not think the average Ameri- can multi millionaire very high typt
 and do not much admire him. On tht
 whole our people are, spiritually a: well as materially, on the average bet
 ter and not worse off than they were
 100 years ago."
 Each man knows where his owl
 shoe pinches. have had most vivi,
 realization of what it must have mean
 to Abraham Lincoln, in the midst o
 the heart breaking anxieties of tn
 Civil war, to have to take up his tim trying to satisfy candidates for post master"
 There are numerous and grave evil incident to free government, but afte all is said and done I cannot imagin
 any real man being willing to live un
 der any other system.'
 Benedict Arnold! What base we
 was shot through the wool of his vii
 .daringl He was at heart a Lucifel | that child of thunder and lover of tn | battles hottest heat"
 'The more I read Carlyle the nor
 hearty grows my contempt for his pro
 found untruthfulness and for hi | shrieking deification of shamel" T have never understood public me
 who get nervous about assassination | Written shortly after the attack upo | his life in Milwaukee in 1912.) For tn
 last Il years I have, of course, under
 stood that I might at any time be she
 and probably would be shot some tim | l think I have come off uncommonl well. I cannot understand any serious minded public man not being so al
 sorbed in the great and vital question
 with which he has to deal as to eS elude thoughts of assassination. It not a question of courage"
 l Colonel Roosevelt, in what was prof
 ably one of his best letters to S George in 1918, referred to the fact ths
 his four sons and a son-in-law wei
 fighting for the allies After referrin
 to them in terms of affection and tn; he would not for anything have thel
 anywhere else" he concluded q fes
 we would welcome their return hom
 each with an arm or a leg off, so tn;