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Show THE PRESIDENT. fl Tho Now York Evening Post notes that "two H emperors," a pontiff, and tons of thousands of loss H illustrious persons have hastened to congratulate H Mr. Roosevelt. The uncounted throng contains, fl doubtless many who distrust crowned heads and H rail at tho Roman supremacy. Yet hero they are jfl all. Kaisers and cattle rangers, prelates and H Presbyterians joined in a common enthusiasm. jfl Populists forgot to scorn Hapsburgs and Hohen- H zollorna, the Octopus rejoices fraternally with H "God's patient poor,'' one touch of Theodore jfl "makes the whole world kin." jfl Tho Post Is a cynical sheet. Between the lines jfl it is easy to read that in the judgment of the H Post, it is a foolish thing for the world to wish a H President well, whom the Post did not wish to H see elected, but Is not the fact that the world H and all ranks and conditions of men pay the Presi- jfl dent the homage of their kindly greetings, proof H in 'tself that the judgment of the great world's H masses is guided by a clearer instinct, that even H a great scholarly newspaper, when the scholars jH H I who write for that paper have followed a narrow H I groove so long, that Imperceptibly their horizons H i have been contracted, and thev Bee the world only H ' from the standpoint of their own egotism? H I f And what of th.e one man Who can so stir the Hj world and nil classos of people "from I&iserg to H j, , cattle-rangers" Is it not because he has im- H ji pressed upon them nil that he believes in justice H !vf and while always bowing to it, is likewise expoct- H p ing it in leturn, and when withheld is always 1 ! ready to exact it '' H The President has all the eccentricities of ge- H nlus, but on the questions that confront him in H , . his offlco, they are always met, and considered H A. on purely practical lines with the sole idea of B j , fi liaving justice performed No former President H , jj i was so rigid With himself on that score. All pre- M ' ' -f vious presidents here and there yielded a little M to the demands of expediency President Lincoln JH wrote his proclamation of emancipation months H J before he issued it, waiting for a victory to crown B I the Union arms with at least one triumph to make B it look as though it was not the war's exactipns B that had forced him to try a new experiment. B We do not believe Roosevelt would have wait- B , ed an hour after he had made upTiis mind that B ,i it was the right thing to do. He not only be- B lieves in justice, but his belief is never a nega Bj tive one it is always insistent. Had ho been born B a horse instead of a man, no jockey could have Bj prevented his getting away a little in advance of H the Held, and had he been beaten in a four-mile B race he would, could he have talked, challenged B i his rival for an all-day race over fences and B l ditches H These are the qualities which cause the men H i t of all classes, creeds and stations to turn to him. H And none are afraid of him because they all H i , realize that so long as they want nothing but jus- H tice, instead of being afru.u. they can all conli- H dently lean upon him. Many are glad that Mr. Hj i Hay is to continue to be Secretary of State, as H 5 they express it, "to steady tire President." We H ' ! join in that thought and still it seems clear H enough that were Mr Hay president, he would H need a nature like that of the President to lean H upon quite as much as the President needs Hay. H The phraseology of the President is not that of the diplomat, but so long as all that American diplomacy demands is a square deal, the direct brain and stalwart heart of President Roosevelt will alwayo shine out through the perfootly ohosen words of the state papers of Mr. Secretary Hay. |