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Show Col. Roosevelt's B Birthday, Friday H October 27th HR! I Colontl Theodore Hoobovelt wns HJK J fifty-three years of ago on Friday tho UD 27th of October. B In mlllloiiB of heartB throughout tho I flft I rouutry thero wns a friendly throb K ' for tno former president on this an- IK nlversary, hlr.h marked tho attain- I v' mnnt of nnothei milestone In his stir- I Wt. ' ring nud plcturosriuo career. Hr As our only living ex-1'resident and MB tho originator of tho progressive BB movement now sweeping tho country Wtkf ,or ,l wore goneral nnd substantial mm . recognition of tho rights ot the com- S j. won people, tho Colonel holds . position In the affections of bis coun- 1'HiHHflfll flHHHBHflfl& x trymen nkln to that of ouly tliree other heads of tho nntlon In their retirement Wnshlngton, Jefferson, Jackson. First of the 27 presidents to upset that old Tory notion, evolved by Alexander Al-exander Hamilton, that tho people could not bo trusted to think saneiy nnd Intelligently on questions effecting effect-ing their own welfare, he has stood for tho square deal and tho open road for all men. Thought rovolutlonnry and radical in his methods -of reaching after tho evil spots in our business nnd political politi-cal structure mid denounced as an Iconoclast and disturbed by "Hlg Business," Busi-ness," It Is significant of the power of public opinion expressed through n forceful Executive that the reforms he ndvocnted for railroad and corporation cor-poration regulation, pure food, national nation-al conservation, and the other tilings, are now being nccepted nnd Introduced Introduc-ed everywhere. Deflnnt and unbending unbend-ing In I heir resistance to legislation for their regulation, when the Colonel Col-onel first emphasized the popular domain! do-main! for It, we now find "Hlg Ilusl-Hess Ilusl-Hess ' not only tractable and obedient but actually urging the establishment of a fedwal bureau to control and direct dir-ect their corporation. This Is not tho mlUenluui, but it Is a big step forward In the evolution of tho race and marks an epoch In our civilization of transcendent Importance Im-portance of the commercial life In our nntlon. What enres the world whether whe-ther or not tho Colonel got tho right of way across tho Isthmus of Panama for his country by winking tho other eye nt tho revolutionists, so long ns the canal provides a. short cut between be-tween oceans to tho commerce ot nil nations. And of equally little concern will It bo to posterity whether tho irrigation of tho arid wastes and the regeneration of the tlmberlcss forests begnn under his auspices cost ten or one hundred millions, so long ns It has made fruitful and useful that which was neither ono nor tho other. Whatever hl3 enemies may say of him they cannot withhold from him the credit of these achievements which hao added to the prestige of his country and tho welfare of Its people. More than any other head ot the nation he stimulated Interest in tho great west, fostored Its resources, re-sources, directed attention to its opportunities, op-portunities, Inspired confidence In Us people, nnd promoted a better understanding un-derstanding between them and their brothers of the East. Under his administration ad-ministration the first movemout for the protection of tho bottom lands of the Mississippi wns begun, tho deepening of tho interior waterways systematized, our relations with all tho nations of the earth strengthened, the new trnns-Pnclflc cables from tho Golden Gate to Hawaii, Guam and tho Fur East put Into commercial usor the telepost system of automatic tele-raphy tele-raphy Inaugurated to give competl tlon to the monopoly and lnstitulo a uniform rate to all sections on tho principal of tho post office, the public domains safeguarded from land scho-mcrs, scho-mcrs, thu HusBo-Jupahese war brought brou-ght to an end through his Intervention Interven-tion and the standard of domesic morality mor-ality and public service raised whore 'ero the flog floats. What American has done more? n |