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Show Ij !!; THE PRESIDENT'S WORK AND WAYS. , fj h A year ago today half the newspapers in this country were warning the people that Theodore , ; ' ' Roosevelt was a dangerous candidate, that his ! " v thirst for military glory was so insatiable that if I III elected President he would certainly plunge the J ; I country into a great war. Today from every im- '' V portant country of Europe, by cable and by mail, ( M come the insistance of the foremost men of those , ; S j ! countries that the great Nobel prize for peace I 'j j must be given to Mr. Roosevelt. The contrast is iit 'j jjf most laughable. The President interposed his of- I ficial and personal individuality into the delibera- : tions which threatened to be without avail and j brought around terms of peace which all the ! ! plenipotentiaries agreed upon. He did, on a larger jj ? scale, what he had done before in settling the ; j great coal strike. Still an old-time Dakota ' 1 1 1 1 stage driver has just been to Oyster Bay and re- j ' I ports that the President is "just the same old j ! I Teddy." That is, he is without either fear or ' : j f . false pride; he loves fun, but his deeper nature '! ' would if it could banish everything from the world jjjjjj j" that causes sorrow and tears or injustice. j ; j j) j j j He is understood now in the old world as he '! 'j ' never was before. It is recognized everywhere , I j there that the present purpose of those who have J ( the United States government in control is to have a square deal at home and abroad, and that while every possible effort will be made to preserve pre-serve the peace, this country is all prepared for a war if necessary. That is the best possible guarantee guar-antee of a long peace. We hope that the next effort of the President will be to try to influence the nations of Europe to combine and stop the atrocities in Armenia and borderlands, and that he will suggest that the best way to accomplish that will be to push railroads rail-roads into those regions. The locomotive is the great Evangel of Peace after all. It cows half savage men as it does the savage beasts. They want to skulk away from before it. The President's Presi-dent's talk to the Panama canal engineers was most characteristic. In substance, it was: "Decide "De-cide upon a plan; build a sea level canal if it does not promise to be too costly and too long in construction, con-struction, but go to work; the canal is what is needed." He is the livest President that this country has ever had, has a clearer idea of the wants and modes of thought of the whole country than any other President ever had; is the easiest one to approach ap-proach and the hardest one to throw down when he thinks he is right; he is as near the people as was Lincoln, as ready for a scrap as was Jackson, Jack-son, as austere when the occasion calls for it as was Washington. In the mean time, the subject on which he devotes most of his time is how best to serve his fellow countrymen and humanity generally. |