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Show H Which Is Best IN tho next year or two people will have a chance to determine whether, when a difficulty comes, B it is better to try to conciliate or fight it out. m When President Roosevelt was assailed for any m of his acts of omission or commission, he never m thought of apologizing or taking anything back, M but he got on the highway and he called the M other fellow a liar and offered to prove it. M His successor is not that way. He made a M little speech before the Press Club in Chicago m two weeks ago and said some sharp things about M newspaper men. He made another speech at a M press banquet in New York the other night, and, m while he took nothing back, he explained that all m the tough things he had said in Chicago were B said merely in a Pickwickian sense, that really they were not dangerous, and that If there was M one thing in the world he loved it was a newspa- M per man. B Mr. Roosevelt will be home in a few weeks, M and we anticipate for him the greatest reception H i ever given a man in New York. "When Mr. Taft H goes out office in 1913, then goes abroad, rounds H the world and returns, we doubt very much about H his having the biggest reception ever given a H man. H And the difference between them is, one H would like to have all the world at peace; he H would like to be at peace himself; he will go out H of his way to fix things to have peace; while the H " other one enjoys a row, and while he is an ad- H; vocate of peace, it Is never difficult to dlstln- H u gulsh, trailing behind him, with a Arm grip in H 1 his own hand, the big stick. t |