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Show The veriest mugwump will hardly find any fault with President Roosevelt's speech of acceptance ac-ceptance of the statue of Frederick the Great. It was strong and true and in the best of taste. The most Important sentence in it was Its reference, ref-erence, to Emperor William- of Germany, in wLich he outlined his own disposition while saying of the Kaiser: "Himself a man who has markedly added to the luster of his great house, and his great nation, a man who has devoted his life to the welfare of his people, and who, while keeping ever ready to defend the rights of that people, has also made it evident in emphatic fashion, that he and they desire peace and friendship with all the other nations of the earth." In dignity, in taste, in scope of thought and felicity of expression, expres-sion, the speech was worthy of the President and the occasion. |