Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1912 — It Recognizes a Man. [ARTICLE]

It Recognizes a Man.

Theodore Roosevelt is a fairly close presentment of what this nation likes to call a man. Such faults as faultfinders like ourselves have been able to descry in him are faults of the highly tempered, hasty and not always reasonable nation which selected him to govern it. * No man probably could have risen so high in American politics and emerged so stainless from his early struggles. No man could have used his power with a larger moral usefulness to his whole people. And we doubt whether any man in history has undertaken late in life as high and unselfish a venture in the field of politics as the bull moos°. It is fortunate that those who value lightly the important things of life—courage, personal honor, and the well-being of those about them—and who guard closely safety, comfort and their pocketbook are almost the only Americans cynical enough to disbelieve in the honesty of Theodore Roosevelt’s words within the fi\e minutes of an attempt upon his life: “Friends, I want to say this about myself: I have too many important things to think about to pay pay heed or to feel any concern over my own death.” Collier s is not so hypercritical that it can not recognize a man.— Collier’s Weekly, Det. 24.