Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1919 — AMERICA’S AMERICAN [ARTICLE]

AMERICA’S AMERICAN

POSTHUMOUS PRAISE SHOWS ROOSEVELT A WORTHY LEADER. There is great satisfaction to those, •who during the life of Theodore Roosevelt, recognized in him America’s greatest Americap and were guid-ed-by his wise leadership. Now friend and foe all behold in him the qualities that mark him the hero of his, if not of all ages. The following extracts are true expressions of the worth of this great man: “The Philadelphia North American, which lias been a thoroughgoing Roosevelt paper from the early days of his career, declares that America’s service and triumph in the Great War ‘were the product of the will, the passionate conviction, and the devoted services of Theodore Roosevelt, private citizen, more than of any other force.” The North American recalls these circumstances in proof of its apparently extravagant statement: “For many months his was the only potent .voice ra i sed in this country in behalf of violated law and humanity. Against the current of a misdirected public opinion, in the face of traducing criticism and an oeial enmity that was little short of . malignant, he championed ithe imperiled cause of democracy and preached a flaming crusade of America’s duty Despite adverse teachings backed by authority during two years and a half, 'the truths that he proclaimed found steadily growing response. It -was his stimulating leadership that awoke the conscience and rallied the spirit of (the American people, unt'l they literally forced .the abandonment of a vacillating, self-.seeking policy, and turned the mighty energies of the nation into the channel of honor and obligation.” But no event in Mr. Roosevelt’s "career explains the secret of his hold on his fellow men. What was the secret of this? asks the Boston Herald, and it answers: zr He was a man’s man, a hero’s hero and an American’s American.” The most important part of his equipment, says the Rochester Post-Express, was his “moral force and dauntlessness.”