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Show H THE PRESIDENT. Since he became president the chief magistrate B has tried about everything. He has bearded wolves and bears and catamounts in their lairs, he fl has climbed the glaciers of Colorado, taken a dip under the sea in a submarine boat, bluffed the yellow fever in New Orleans; been in a cql-lision cql-lision in the lower Mississippi and faced an Atlantic gale off Hattaras. There docs not seem B much left for him except a balloon excursion. B We did' not mention his tustle with the trusts B and railroads, but he is holding his own with H them, and that really tests the fibre of a man B more than either wolf or bear hunting. The legends say that a famous hydra of old had many B heads, that when one was severed another sprang B up in its place and the hydra was the world's terror. But Hercules was not discouraged. He did not try to cut off heads but proceeded to HI smash them with his club, and he did the mon- Bj ster up. It was probably from that history that B Mr. Roosevelt got the idea of the efficacy of B "the big stick." May he be prospered in his in- B tentipns to reduce things to a square deal. B In other lines he has done pretty well. He H: brought the great coal strike to an adjustment; Bl he was the urgent power behind the men who flf' pushed through the reclaimation bill; he was a little Providence to both Russia and Japan, when V. both were about licked, but too proud to meet H: 9ach other half way and make an honorable H treaty. For that his name is as well known in H Europe and the Orient as in our own land; better. known than that of any other president, not excepting ex-cepting Washington, and his acts have given new prestige to our republic. In sporting parlance par-lance "he has been playing in the biggest kind of luck" ever since he became president. The secret is that first, he is honest, and second, he is not afraid. He has reached the highest place in his country's gift a higher place than any other land could give, he is not planning plan-ning now for new honors, and is free to follow all the high and generous instincts of his nature. The result is that instead of being exalted by the office that he holds, he is exalting the office. Because Be-cause of him thousands of men and women in the south, who have held the north and the government govern-ment in bitterness for forty years, are feeling that bitterness melting from their hearts. He has visited every region of the country except Alaska; he is at home alike with broncho-busters and university professors; at a wolf hunt or in making a speech in a Sunday school; in addressing address-ing a ministerial association or shoveling coal in the hold of a steamer; in a cabinet meeting or on the bridge of a battle ship, facing a northeast hurricane on the stormy Atlantic. If he is not the greatest of men, he has more kind of greatness great-ness than any other man, and he can bring out every faculty of his mind with more fullness than any other man. He is a model man for the youth of the country coun-try to pattern after. The very wisest act of his life was when his education in the schools being finished, he determined to go to the frontier and to live and learn how the poor and the unlearned go about making a livelihood. In that way he learned more of his country and his countrymen than he would ever have known had he remained at home or gone to Europe. May he be long spared to his country. |