THEODORE ROOSEVELT 



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"Over and above everything Theodore Roosevelt was a deeply patriotic 

 American. He had intensified his passionate love of his country that was 

 natural in him by acquiring an intimate knowledge and a profound apprecia- 

 tion of the great sacrificial struggle needed to make her great. He left no doubt 

 of his willingness himself to render the ultimate sacrifice in her behalf. His 

 spirit of patriotic devotion was web and woof of his character. He sent his four 

 boys forth to war with the pride of a Roman Tribune. Through his father's 

 tears for Quentin's death there shone the stern joy that a son of his had been 

 given to die the death he would himself have sought on the field of battle in 

 his country's cause. Theodore Roosevelt's example of real sacrifice was of 

 inestimable value to our country in this war. The nation has lost the most com- 

 manding, the most original, the most interesting, and the most brilliant per- 

 sonality in American public life since Lincoln." 



Roosevelt passed away peacefully, on the night of January 5, 

 1919, mourned by untold numbers in this and other countries. 

 His grave on the hillside in the beautiful little cemetery near his 

 home at Sagamore Hill is the object of pilgrimage for thousands, 

 old and young, high and low, rich and poor, all eager to do homage 

 to the man they had admired and loved as the third of that great 

 trinity of American Presidents, Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt. 



For the loan of the excellent photograph of Theodore Roosevelt 

 from which the accompanying photogravure is made the author 

 is indebted to his friend, Dr. Ralph Waldron, of Newark. This is 

 the last photograph of Roosevelt taken before his last illness. 

 Whether or not he felt the approaching end intuitively, the pic- 

 ture shows Theodore Roosevelt in serious mood. Perhaps he 

 thought of the world war and all that it meant to the world 

 at large, to the American nation, and to himself. On his lapel 

 we notice the insignia showing how very close the war had come 

 to his own family. There we see the four stars representing 

 Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Kermit Roosevelt, Archibald Bullock 

 Roosevelt, and Dr. Richard Derby, who all served in the war, 

 but fortunately returned. In the midst of these stars we notice a 

 golden one, the star of the heroic Quentin Roosevelt, who did not 

 return, having made the supreme sacrifice, and whose body rests 

 in the soil of France surrounded by those of his comrades. 



Well may we reiterate here the words of Warren G. Harding, 

 President of the United States, expressed on October 27, 1921, 

 the sixty-third anniversary of Roosevelt's birth, "He was the 

 greatest American of his time." 



