Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-14

which he had began to write in col
lege, was published, THE Naval War
of 1912"
One would expect to find an author
so young ard of Roosevelt's tempera-
ment engrossed in the romantic side
of his subject with little attention
paid in detail to the technique of
naval warfare. on the contrary. the
book deals with the inaccuracies of
earlier writers, much space is given
to the careful sitting of evidence and
1t is decidedly controversial in its tone
dealing in technicalities to such a
degree as to make it perhaps of
greater interest to the student than
to the general reader. Roosevelt
once said of ii that IL was as interest
ing as dictionary. This was ar.
eXaggeration; the book is not lacking
in interest and what is of more
Importance, had positive influence
In stimulating the development of
our navy.
The session of 1884 ended his SER
in the Assembly. He refused a re-
nomination and two nomir ations to
Congress. His purpose to abandon
political life seems clear.
Several years ago I happened to
be sitting next President Eliot at
public dinner-Roosevelt was then
President. Mr.. Eliot said 10 me that
certain prominent banker had told
him that the banking fraternity
would not then do things which 1T
would have done two years before
fine testimony to the changed feeling
in commercial circles; II was a very
different feeling in 1907 from that
which prevailed in 1897. For this
Roosevelt was largely responsible.
His great power was a moral power,
and moral questions inter ested him
more than any others He was at
his very best in any controversy in
which they were involved. For eX-
ample. he did not believe that the
question of lowering or raising the
duties as proposed by the two parties
in any way approached in import
so called. in which the rights of diff
ferent classes of society were in
volved and the question of social
justice was at issue. lie believed
that those who urged upon him the
necessity for taking up the tariff
knew that the tariff would be a red
herring across the path OF moral and
industrial reform.
1905, when the FIRST Moroccan
/ incident occurred and II looked very
/ much like war, he wrote very
strong letter, as Senator Lodge has
told me. to the kaiser. I'm which he
said in substance that the civilized
world would regard with horror a
war with France and that the kaiser
would bring upon himself the hos
tility of all civilized nations. The
kaiser replied that there would be
no war and that he would do at any
! time what. Roosevelt advised. That
danger passed. and the result was
the Algeciras conference, where
! Henry White represented the United
States. 1t will be remembered that
the conference came TO deadlock
ard appeared TO be about to break
| up. Senator Lodge has told me that
one afternoon when they We're riding
and discussing the subject Roosevelt
said 10 him; "I have eabled to the
kaiser reminding him Of his note
and asking him to take steps TO Sc
cure the conclusion of the CONFER
euce | do not know whether he viii
do anythink, but have done my
part" The result was that the Ger
man resistance was Withdrawn ana
a Fettlement reached, Senator Lodge
said that Mr.. White told him that
he did not know that Roosevelt had
done anything hut that he was struck
with the sudden disappearanee Of the
German opposition and the quick
settlement which followed. all the
result af the cable.
speakeE He was haiting and-hezl-