The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 22, 1901, Page 8

f one is ntent isregard the considera wh t hon ble and upright P Meier nd it In abso P ecessar do any work worth doing i not hard while sitting in one's to dexise admirabie plans for the t in practice it often proves very ter than the critic, and stands far above the whether because of weakness. Buccess the player who ‘hits the ere is in Roosevelt's own words his sl wn description of him- ‘ e preface to ‘“American and through the rest of the work inds here and there interesting opin- ey were written four years be- ppenings which have placed White House, and are there- va ble as show what manner of he inks a Preside should be. Bpeaking of the office of Vice President he savs in a chapter in “American Ideals” H sides over the Senate and he has in Washington a position of marked so- but his political weight s almost nil. s a chance that he mhay As this is only a sible to per- to give it proper weight. oes not seem right. The Vice President should, so far as the same views and 2 secured the nom- election of the President. He an standing well in the councils of the party, trusted by his fel- Jow party leaders and able in the event of any accident to his chief to take up the work of just where It was t Tt will be a matter of much importance that the next Vice Pres for some settled policy hy thing to have the nd the President repre- ples so far apart that the succession of one to the place of the oth- er means a change as radical as any pos- sible party overturn.” *”» ‘s With President Roosevelt there goes into the White House a typical American vl of the people and first, foremost and e and mother, hap- life to a family of look as though they had d out from a canvas by Sir Joshua A man is as many times 2 man as he speaks languages, said one who is a lin- guist. It might better be said that a man is as many times a man as he has occupations uged in this way Theo- dore Roosevelt is a whole community. He has run the gamut of human oc- cupations as far as the limitations of compar: 1y short life have He has ridden wild bronchos the plains, w running a ranch in the West. He has pulled mired cows from the swamp and branded young calves. He bas hunted wolves that wer pulling down yearlings on dark nights. He has gone on month-long bear hunts ate marauders that were oung colts. He has been a lawyer, a soldier, an officlal of the navy, a writer for magazines, a maker of books, a regulator of municipal politics, Governor of a State. He has done all of these things and each of them wcll as the best can do them. He passed through the tenderfoot stage and bucked up against bad men, he with his fists, they with their guns and other weapops, until they were glad to give him wide berth. When he had demonstrated that & tenderfoot could break horses faster, lasso steers more surely and gen- erally get more profit out of the woolly West than the men who had spent their lives tangled in it, he went back to the bad, wild East, and there in Mulberry Jireet, the Five Points and the Bowery he showed what cool grit and clean hands could do in besting rowdy politicians and their edherent He went into politics THE SUNDAY CALL. PRESIDENT THEODORE. RoosSEVELT... fldzeem; with a theory, and showed that in prac- tice his theory was perfect. When he was Police Commissioner he did not wait for reports, but got out late at night, and up early in the mofning; went the rounds and saw for himself what was wrong. ‘He studied the crim- inals as he had studied natural history. He studied the helpléss poor, and he stud- ied the politicians and the political meth- ods which he considered responsible. His work and his books have told the world with what result He studied law until he knew it, so that none could tangle him in its meshes, and then had the good sense to keep out of it. He wrote magazine articles and books, not selfishly for the money that he might make. but for the gdbod they might do, and the result is that they are good books, of which he and other Americans may be proud. / Americans will insist on shaking their President by the hand and they will in- sist in the same way on knowing ail about his family. It belongs to them. Mrs. Roosevelt has fought against pub- licity with a success that speaks for her ability. During all the stirring times of the reports of San Juan Hill, when correspondents flocked to her house for her strongest request was always ave me out.” It was upon that con- dition only that she gave the desired news, and her wishes were respected =0 thoroughly "that when the recent cvents have brought her more strongly into notice there was nothing in the way of information to be gleaned from writ- ings. But for all that she is not a woman 7 “lacking in strong personality. Her ex- ( MRS. Ro;:fi_fivs\.T TEN 7EJ\R-$ oon treme good sense and the grace Wwith which she has always retired from the rublic glare is shown in one of the few statements which she has made public. It was when at the time of the inaugu- ration some one asked as to whether she would live at Washington, and s answered that “they had not encugh money to afford to live at the capital in the style in which a Vice President's family should live and still do their duty in properly educating and bringing up their children.” Yet there must have Leen strong temptation on the .part of any erdinary woman to avail herself of the social opportunities afforded to her as wife of the next to the highest of- ficial in the United States At the same time, too, a foretaste was given of the interest which Washington would take in Rooseyelt's interesting family, for there they sat in the front row of the Senate llery, Mrs. and M Rocsevelt and the five younger childre; Surrounded by foreign and domestic not- they were yet the center of all markable ily even Alice Ro is the who dicd at her h. and the other five children are the present Rocsevelt TRoose- velt ed ¢ siderable =ums of moncy from her mother und some from her mother ily, so that now -Mr. marks h a ays particular at- tenticn to her, as she Is the only moneyed one of the family. The younger Roos velts 4 not hampered with dignity herit or example, for father b tn secing chil- aren and he joins in their ronps Viien the el went away to tine Lefcre le we torn and destroy evelt t son of chool it v ort t back an account of d elothing which would have upset any crdainary father, but to 1ocserclt it was the best report that he cared to have, for he knew that |t CHILDREN OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVEL T phowed health and spirits to be rampant in_the child The six Roosevelt children make & re- markable group, and s easy to see why they uttracted when they it the inauguration striking picture pre- 1oted photograph by such suc- wented and the » first wife, thel, and n its Theodore with much s. Quentin, m the left Stunding on K front of {sh-Americar member _his him is Kermit of the picture t} ibuld. It s we e acquainted s children, for in the next four years re bound to be brought much before tency to public and will have a & the White House a merrier place een for m. v day, espe- p =rollir time comes at it has y when ster and the children of the city of congregate on the White to roll eggs racing down the ter Jeck eggs to see whose hard- shelled egg shall win, It will be Roosevelt's greatest regret on coming into power that he will have so little time to devote to the family that is h to him and to which he means h, but there is a busy life ahead for he has the will to make a suc- every one of the theories which en s artily approved by the people. Pis remark that “the next Vice Prest- dent should stand for some settled pol- jcy” is full of meaning. Roosevelt’s pol- icy in office has en ‘‘enforce the laws.” are no dead letter laws left lying und where he is enforcing them. He feves that it is the duty of an execu- e tc enforce all laws which apply, whether good or bad. If bad they should De repealed, and he says “the best way to law repealed Is to enforck it.”* is one law that he may enforce as it has never been the latter half of the century anywhere in the world. It will be remembered that during the first that it was known he was to be jdent an assassin started on his The world was once rid of assas- It may be done again. Up to the vear 1500 thére had been the usual num- ber of killings of rulers or assaults upén them scattered through the decades. Dur- ing the latter part of that year a deadly bomb thrown under the eoach of Napoleon as he was passing through a Street on his way to the opera. He said nothing m at the time. Went to the Went home. Saw Fouche. There- nd even long after Fouche left hi s Minister of Police he was a b Conti- Surope. There were many long s apparently without purpose and men marked for police capt out apparently adequate reason, but arly half a century after that time there was not another attack worth men- tion on any ruler of the civilized world. has rolled round and there