Show Roosevelt Roosevelt tile the Citizen TT VERT in in tho United States today tolay the thc theof EVERYWHERE memory of Theodore Roosevelt Roose is being honored b by bytho to 10 tho the national na nn- national fitting tribute fitting tribute the tho American people It is a n. devotion de of our 1 the tho who vho service of a n man won people by the t the be sheer force of his character In tho many tho the lifo and work vork today on that will that will bo be preached sermons o Q Colonel Roosevelt the tho at attention of oI our people will be he fretted directed to many channels in which ho he worked and succeeded Ho Ee will be honored as n a statesman as ns a soldier as a writer and as a n diplomat but towering above all aIL these will bo tho wholesome Americanism of Roosevelt the citizen The last earthly remains of Colonel Roosevelt elt were laid away awny in keep keeping inn ng with his hig personal desires Tb c simple stepto obsequies ies were reflective of what was in the heart of tho the man As a popular American hero Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt had no equals His grip on the thc American heart and ana mind has never been questioned In life lifo Colonel Roosevelt Roose Hoose- velt was conversant with witti his powers was familiar with his standing in American citizenship If ho he had carried carried carried car car- ried any selfishness any vanity in his heart it t would na have lavo e and expression in the funeral services arranged nt at his bis direction o 1 The ser services ices however were marked by a simplicity which might be accorded the most obscure citizen It was as his d desire ire to die as 1 ho had bad lived an nn American citizen citizen citizen cit cit- cit cit- izen without the frills of fame based on loyal service to the loved He cherished the rugged rugg-ed handclasp handclasp hand hand- clasp of the toiler far more moro than the silken touches touche o of royalty Ho lie was not tempted b by the glitter and the of tho the court preferring always nys to maintain th the American spirit of equality Ho lIo neither catered nor bowed to the crowned heads of Europe approaching them n a as man to man And Just dust as he lie paid reverence re to tu no other man ho courted none from his peers To him tho the engineer in the cab tho the cowboy on tho the range and the man on tho the street were as ns human as himself and essentially a part of the citizenship ho he strived so hard t to portray Colonel Roosevelt elt was an American through and through h. h Ho IIo was possessed of the courage e and the thc strength of of oC his convictions when his fellowmen wavered wa Just as ho recognized no autocrat abroad he pie could admit admit ad- ad mit nit of none at home His lIis vision was as wide i o and it carried carried carried car car- ried with it the tho welfare of tho American people as ns a whole Not long before his death Colonel Roosevelt Hoose said ho viewed with ith suspicion any man who thought as much of another country n as ho lie did of his own It was not an in idle expression nor a n popular phrase but the tho Americanism Americanism Amer Amer- sm of Colonel Roosevelt Roose as he had lived li it So it itis itis is that his citizenship today is the greatest g attribute of the tho character which will be bo so uni un universally eulogized 0 Pa rl l 75 l fa |