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THEODORE
ROOSEVELT
BY
NORMAN HAPGOOD
THEODORE
ROOSEVELT
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NORMAN HAPGOOD
ISSUED
1905
BY THE ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT OF
Colliers
The
A\b West
National
Weekly
New
13th Street
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IQOJ
York C.'y
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i
Norman
Hapgood
\JORMAN HAPGOODS
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™
National
international,
human,
editorials
They
Weekly.
suggestive.
are
fit
The
national,
They do
not
preach, they vivify the world's event* with their
suggestions.
musl
If
sometimes
you disagree with them
—
you
disagree
-
and you
good-naturedly.
But you will read them and you will not read
them without having some new light thrown on
some subject that will interest you as a thinking
:
man
or
woman.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
TH
E
Roosevelt Legend
The
shape.
President
is
is
rapidly taking
a complex but
When
not myslerious appearance.
concludes
be
will
lines
and
work
present
his
distinct
1908,
in
he
his out-
young
for a "Statesman so
so fertile in inconsistency.
No
clearer folly
was ever perpetrated than
few conspicuous organs
the attempt of a
silk
locking and Wall Street ingredients
las!
campaign
that
to
velt
was
autocrat
and pointing the way
The
autocracy.
people
a democrat in
herited party affiliation,
was a democrat mainly
knew
every
and
in
that
that
menacing
except
is
and
The
appellation.
see one.
if
smell like the majority.
no better than any other.
masses have a good deal more
anybody
else.
in-
Mr. Parker
unre-
would choose leaders who look
snobbery
than
Roman
to
know a democrat when they
Cynics may observe that the masses,
the maionty
the
Mr. Roose-
way
people
stricted,
in
befuddle voters into the belief
Mr. Roosevelt was an
free institutions
of the
political
like
That
The
sense
MiOLLD BE
Hi:
Roosevelt
At.
m
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as paintctl as a
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vub.
humor,
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mjIc
.
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newspapers.
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is
more exasp<
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of
Mr.
knowing thry
br,
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as a
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placard reading.
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instinctive as a
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Mr.
mind,
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thou,
its
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democr.v
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paaing
of Roosevelt
an
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in
OtMl trappings
a {talesman. Bod
;<fl dignity.
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none
oi the j**'
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t:
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he
hftl
welling on rut
r
trails
free
moo-
inner are those
Husk, in th< Hi
of the gre
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to prinl in
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in
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in
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level
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what
in.
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then
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a
of
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to
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an inspired
will NNTitc
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letter
tfjh
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when be
hand,
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him.
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mm
a grr.it
is
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tbinli
he
id
not so badly
moo<
in
Jy,
rivate Be.
Roowrh
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around
becoriu:!
h
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some persons a
Hie people
like
in
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but which give
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p.ij IB
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too,
near!)
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linn,
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W DO
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not.
1
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nil
motl un
him.
le
It
ome one
il
seizes
le
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are
DUth.
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ends
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like
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are
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good
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the
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-on venation has <b*u< I OUl oi
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hts
v
nil
shape
prrsmce
l.trrarv sense,
t:
sound
|
;
but
I
uting for a path.
"A
his
square d
he
by
!
a
crossed his ear, gave* him acuteit
it
sioner, did "
WM
when he
So,
satis-
Commis-
Police
Enforce the law because
is
it
the
law."
W
modulation he can be
ithi
swung by suih welcome phrase, but
larger
n<
t
pigeon or a
r
n(
f
he
s
I-
women
more
any
been,
never
of
int-
1!:
deed
m
is
And
1
will
and
reach them.
takei B person of
this land.
about
thinking
\
or order
at
llighl
t
1
le
li
hear
in
the
planabons or oV
aw. ike
he
neept,
He
as,
•
functioning
is
the
h and well, and
wi
many
r<
from ar
artiMties
represent
to
In re.ifiirming the
j
cele-
mmonplace volume ike
hr.it
Simple
a small'
•'•
of consi-t'
couniry*i gam.
I
bimnf
in
and
nd he
I
two
L<
iy.
Mr. Rootevell
for certain
DOl
it
nee,
life.
He
does not
le
-
I
overrule* to-d
and needs none.
-
1
Al
are
there
with passion yefterd
worth of human
hard
thei
spirit in
than
who
the lady
in
I
of
and
ootwo Reoteveks, and
1
He
goes,
with public
ica.
his
iutindt, as a car-
g(
woman
;
in
,
.it
"
;
n
attacking
race nncid
win beaters, weaklings, of
preaching
at
hem»|
in
i
talking
about
i
Kun,
greasiw
IikIi in. i
in
.
all
tl
P
ind
living
I.
not l»v intention, l>ut
.:i
:
i'-nt
Ins
<\i
fundbon
I
cssful
!
ped
sin<
THE KEYNOTE
Roost' v«
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with
him, but he h
it.
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:our
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in
aSlic
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gumg
:
mod-
,
i
.
he
.
the note of
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Folk
;
the fatal
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oon!
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i
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i-
in fa
:
principle
>
n\
ha
he
ii
issues us*
ru
I
to
of
Dunas of
They want
people want.
a moral tone
a moral reality and
and Theodore Roosevelt
;
speeches you
which
find
will
the note
is
of
which other
the note
note
the exact
the
is
whose
only statesman, alive or dead, in reading
struck
to-day toward reform,
over the
politicians, all
He
country, are beginning to use.
struck
it,
not from profundity of insight, but because
was
himself,
and because the
which leads him on has
the
trust
stirrings
matters of
of
details
strict
of his
him always
told
and
soul
intellectual
body.
analysis,
it
demon
instinctive
to
In
the
like
schedules, or the intricacies of
tariff
commerce, he sees dimly and proceeds with
In pervading
caution.
moral tone,
confidence with which he follows
he
beliefs,
is
strong with
masses and the time.
means
be
to
To
the
his intimate
forces
be moral
for the people,
naked
in the
politics
in
whether
;
His
It
fight
is
chief interest
no wonder
has been their
more, with the
constant
and
his
He
fight.
aid
of
to free the people's voice
pression to ideals of to-day's
racy.
to
last
that they love
be
re-
him.
has done
Providence,
than any ten other men, between
1905,
news-
and the people know themselves
Mr. Roosevelt's
liance.
leads
it
against bosses, corporations, Senators, or
papers
the
of
1
888 and
and give ex-
American democ-
Only three Presidencies
since
the
war
" He'a
Hy B*m*T
good enough
P.iv<nf>crt
s
in tkr
f
i
;
have
a
left
McKinley,
one
the
many
old
some
virtuous laws.
He
sides.
wounds and
heal
secured
Grover Cleveland's
remembrance, one
stub-
an
into
built
of those idealized facls
which guide and befriend the
may
helped to
diplomatically
born courage has already been
ideal
country.
tad and gentleness, embodied
in his
Lincoln's
of
mark upon
striking
History
nations.
allow Mr. Cleveland to loom largest of our
recent
and
Presidents.
his
his path,
and February win
has been
on Roosevelt
Fate swept McKinley and
destiny.
Hanna from
depends
It
even as Generals January
their victories
in
She
war.
mood.
his friend also in gentler
If
he
continues to receive her help, and to deserve
if
for four
years he speaks with the people's bet-
he
ter voice,
than any since the
He
committed
with
manly
President to pos-
will look a taller
terity
is
shot
fatal
to retirement in
taste
to a
1
On
1912
nominated
ticians.
m
To
in
be
possible
Bowing
to the
1908 he might
peo-
To
fetters.
on
rely
be
poli-
recalled in 191 2, or any time
two decades would mean
leadership.
Booth.
disputable convention,
are no such
had spoken, and only
die
of
908.
he avoids a seeming lack of loyalty
ple.
it
reward
they.
of
that
And
brave
the people
that
and
glory
is
powerful
THE PRESIDENTS QUALITIES
The IV
anything that
men may
•
We
can onjy hope
do each year more
will
•\il
which
is
hut
trivial,
remain
to
is
long
thai
and useful race through
1
fen
or n thousand othi
1
say,
ln.tim 1-guid
remake himtel
not
will
!<-nt
i
of
good and
in
he
Efe
less of
evil
lowers the personality
it
Success
in slory.
is
a great
C,
and beneficent, hut not an only, god.
bo, md beneficent, are self-respcdt and sturdy
and the power
tv,
Doin^ Things
the chief
is
Bit Being Tilings
man
as
he
i
is
whom we
puMic servant
in,
a true
It
who
is
part of the
is
are jealous of
These
place a value.
one
self,
an Executive,
of
We
remembered.
ing not^s concern
.1
end
something.
is
one's
sacrifice
to
pass-
probably the mosl
since the war.
A
true
democrat, a loud noise for
righteousness, a fighter for the people's just en-
franchisement, he
1
people
are
>f
c
the
strongest
single safe-
-out of the million safeguards which our
I
ra
of
is
money
I
of
the
brands
:i.
I
hii
tpye
are cured
justice,
discontent
wildcat
of
I
and
leanft.
If
under leadership
\.;11
be taken from
\ oung Ri< hard
followers h "1
ftaboed \\
Tyler, rode to the head of Tyler's fright
II.
.it
but threatening mob, and lead, "
/ will
be your
lead-
Mr. Rootevel
1
as
is
busy as Busier Brown.
le thinks that doing everything
In his case, Hid,
00 the whole,
ent Wafer, although
pub
I
for
.my Democral extant
i<
Itul,
Rl
half
1
seeks the
le
with
all
his
than forty-six.
clangor.
Will he
I
%w
,r
cordantly as youth and middle
secrets of the Sislers
hope our hero's
credit
LL»- a ball of rolling
lis
fights to win.
le
He
earth.
1
and
prancing,
his
-
Mr. Root
and he
despite
nnetOOted,
up when he
no
Ii-- pres-
.
and backl nimbly aw. »v from wrong.
le,
lb-
i
rather less than
old h
right
doing good.
is
it
is
right side
little
d
old age as ac-
He
J
We
hold
Three; but we brwntly
may
snow.
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in
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