Show THE EX In tho the presidents president's article in Colliers Collier's published in yesterdays yesterday's dispatches he pays pars an extraordinary tribute to ex President Roosevelt's s 's greatness and while e he lie admits that he lie is a fighter and impulsive he says his Ius heart is all right and aud that the present enmities entertained against him will pass away in ina a little while and he lie will rank with Lincoln and Washington There is plenty of good in Theodore Roosevelt but there are a whole lot of kinks in Theodore Roosevelt that were were never in the brain of Lincoln or Washington It seems Mr lr Roosevelt elt has called up what Philip Freneau said when George Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington retired from the presidency which was that he lie was was The The man who is the source of all the mi misfortunes misfortunes mis mis- fortunes to our countr country Th That t was the embittered remark of a disappointed man and that is not the wa way that the people who do not like Mr R Roosevelt feel toward him think that lie he they simply overworked overworked over over- worked the presidency and they include the very highest intellects in the country But it is a little as the New York Times says There are arc nearly ninety millions of inhabitants in this country and of them think that a highly emotional impulsive impulsive im- im V rough riding president who usurps legislative legislative legislative legisla legisla- i tive functions and does stunts is the very best I kind of a president the nation could have And Aud that is true We do not recall an any pres president president dent who ever made himself more fame in the office office of of- fice flee than did aid President Roosevelt Roose during the first four I Imd and md one-half one years ears of his term but that did not justify ins jus jus-I jus a great many things which he lie has done lone since and the thc things he has done which are of off color are not at all such things as Washington n and Lincoln made enemies by doing We Wc think a couple of years in the jungles of Africa and a cou couple le of j years ars in the editorial department department depart depart- ment of a magazine will have a tendency to soften down dO Mr l lr Roosevelt a little certainly if he carries into the editorial chair some of the traits which he has manifested as president he will then be on a level with the other editors of the country and if he enjoys as his friends friend think he does docs a lively fight he lie will get it because there are arc a whole lot of editors edi t tors rs in the tho United States that can say mean things there are a whole lot of others who are cautious about saying sayin brutal things about the tho president of the United States because of the reverence due that great office With that reverence thrown off then it will simply be a case caso of man to man and anci the discipline discipline discipline dis dis- dis- dis will be excellent for the ex |