OCR Text |
Show A GLOWING TRIBUTE. BB For thirty years past men, when BB ' contemplating our Presidents, have BM thought of Washington and Lincoln, BB I and have held but a confused vision SB ' toward the rest. It we mistake not, BV ten years hei.ee there will be a third IBE u name on the shining list, and as tho BK ( President is going on, there will bo H 1 BBS rBBBBi BBl jflBBBBBBBBi i. men who will say that neither Washington Wash-ington nor Lincoln ever did anything that, under the same circumstances, Roosevelt would' not have done' as well. And his fame is not conllncd to our shores. When any intcr-natlonal question Is Sprung, tho first anxiety of the statesmen of all other counties Is, what docs the president of the Great Republic think of this? Ilccatise of him our country Is taking on added prestige every day, and the confidence of the people Is strengthened by the bearing of a man who Is at home with the worklngmen, but who declares that If present laws arc not suillclent to compel justice from the great trusts, mdre drastic laws shall follow. He Is one man In tho history of our country who has never failed, whether the appeal was to his sympathies, his courage or Ills senso of justice. People Peo-ple sleep better knowing that sucli a ciptaln Is on the bridge, and that, while ready to ride out any storm, his chlefest anxiety Is to avoid collisions' and to bring his ship safely Into port. -Goodwin's Wccklcv. |