Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1919 — ROOSEVELT’S IDEALS EVER AN INSPIRATION [ARTICLE]

ROOSEVELT’S IDEALS EVER AN INSPIRATION

(By Leonard Wood, Major-General. UnitedStatesArmy) Theodore Roosevelt was a leader in ideals and in action. He stood for the square deal, one flag, one language and one loyalty—loyalty to the American + people—for industrial justice, for public and private morality, for a strong and vigorous America, charitable and helpful, ever ready to do her duty to civilization and humanity, but an America acting always under the dictates of her own conscience, rather than under the direction of others. He stood for universal service in war as well as in peace. Service for each one s wherever he could best serve. His memory will live among us always, and his life and ideals will serve as an inspiration for all that is best in citizenship.