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MR. ROOSEVELT;
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NEW YORK, Oct 1 (by Associated 1
Press).—Delving into the mine of
150,000 letters which Theodore Roose
velt wrote during his public career,
Joseph Bucklin Bishop, the colonel’s
biographer, in the October issue of ^
Scribner’s Magazine, brings to light ^
a number of “gems” in the intimate
correspondence between the former ^
President of the United States and j
Sir George Otto Trevelyan, Bart., O. r
M., English statesman and author, t
with whom the great American en- j
joyed a rare friendship covering
twenty years.
Mr. Bishop’s paper, the second of g
the series, entitled “Roosevelt and t
Trevelyan,” reveals the many-sided t
Roosevelt as “an insatiable reader of \
book,” his warm sympathy for au
thors and his broad and profound j
knowledge of ancient and modern lit- «
erature. Even amid the cares of the *
Presidency, Mr. Roosevelt, it is
shown, maintained a regular corres
pondence with leaders of literary and
intellectual life both in this country
and Europe. In Sir George Trevel
yan, a nephew of the historian Macau
ley, “he found a man singularly to his
own intellectual tastes and knowl
edge. The correspondence began
when he was governor of New York
and continued until a few months be
fore Mr. Roosevelt’s death.
“I certainly would not be willing to
hold the Presidency at the cost of
failing to do the things which make
the real reason why I care to hold it
at all,” he wrote to Sir George on
May 28, 1904. “I had much rather he
a real President for three years and a
half than a figurehead for seven years
and a half. I think I can truthfully
say that I now have to my credit a
sum of substantial achievement—and
the rest must take care of itself.”
Previously, in 1899, Trevelyan had
sent Governor Roosevelt a copy of the
first part of his history. “The Amer
ican Revolution,” which made a deep
impression on its recipient and which
he praised for “its interest, delightful
humor, absolute fairmindedness and
exactness of narrative,” an opinion
which was shared by Senator Lodge
and Elihu Root, both of whom later
joined with Roosevelt in buying a
silver loving cup and sending it to
Sir George as a token of their appre
ciation. Roosevelt, his biographer
says, was always on the alert lor
writers of only “even moderate fame”
and of encouraging them with friend
ly letters and invitations to visit him
at the White House or Oyster Bay.
The books that made the President
happy covered a remarkable range,
history, fiction, philosophy, travel,
zoology, ornithology, anthropology,
religion and art, and he said they
gave him ease and relaxation he
could get in no other way “not even
on horseback.”
Statements and apothegms char
aeteritically Rooseveltian, abound in
this collection of letters. Some of
them are here reproduced for the first
time in any newspaper:
“A great free people owes it to -
itself and to mankind not to sink into
helplessness before the powers of
evil.”
Unfortunately for us, small men do
most of the historic teaching in the
colleges. The great historian must
have the scientific spirit, able to mar
shal and weigh the facts.”
“The Presidential office tends to
put a premium upon a man’s keeping
out of trouble rather than upon his
accomplishing results. The elector
ate is very apt to vote with its back
to the future.”
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“I do not think the average Ameri
can multi-millionaire a very high type
and I do not much admire him. On
the whole our people are, spiritually
as well as materially, on the average __
better and not worse off than they _
were 100 pears ago.”
“Each man knows where his own
shoe pinches. I have had a most
vivid* realization of what it must have
meant to Abraham Lincoln, in the
midst of the heart-breaking anxieties
of the Civil war, to have to take up j
is time trying to satisfy candidates
ir postmaster.”
“There are numerous and grave
vils incident? to free government, but
fter all is said and done I cannot
nagine any real man being willing
3 live under any other system.”
“Benedict Arnold! What a base
eb was shot through the woof of
is wild daring! He was at heart a
mcifer, that child of thunder and
3ver of the battle’s hottest heat.”
“The more I read Carlyle the more
earty grows my contempt for his
irofound untruthfulness and for his
hrieking deification of shams!”
“I have never understood public
nen who get nervous about assassi
lation. (Written shortly after the
ttack upon his life in Milwaukee in
912.) For the last eleven years I
tave, of course, understood that 1
light at any time be shot and proba
ly would be shot some time. I think
have come off uncommonly well. I
annot understand any serious
linded public man not being so ab
orbed in the great and vital ques
ions with which he has to deal as
o exclude thoughts of assassination,
t is not a question of courage.”
Colonel Roosevelt, in what was
>robably one of his last letters to
Sir George in 1918, referred to the
fact that his four sons and a son-in
law were fighting for the allies. After
referring to them in terms of affec
tion and that he would not for any
thing “have them anywhere else,” he
concluded: “I fear we would welcome
their return home, each with an arm
or a leg off, so that they could feel
that they had played their parts man
fully—and yet we could have them
them back!”
RAPID INCREASEOF
JAPANESE IN HAWAII
HONOLULU, T. H., Sept. 15 (by
mail).—The rapid growth of the Jap
anese population of Hawaii, already
greater than that of any other race,
is indicated by vital statistics com
piled by the Japanese consulate for
the first six months of 1919. The re
port shows 2,616 births among the
Japanese, with only 712 deaths.
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infantry to Alaska for this duty only
have been issued by Lieutenant Gen
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Fort George Wright, Spokane.
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