COLONEL ROOSEVELT IN ENGLAND. 



every one called to international issues, sees in Theodore Roosevelt 

 the one man who comes from a free, self-governing country and yet 

 would he accepted by the Rulers of great countries. 



All Roosevelt's trip has been directed to this end. Read in 

 the light of this proposition and this future post, how masterly are 

 his speeches ! The peace-loving people have got to accept the great 

 peacemaker. 



His speeches at Cairo and Guildhall on Egypt have stilled all 

 fear among the colony-holding nations that the new international 

 court might be used to raise issues as to subject nations. At Berlin, 

 Germany, Roosevelt had a good word for compulsory military ser- 

 vice and standing armies. At Paris he saw in France the world's 

 intellectual leadership. The dread of the small lands he has stilled 

 by his utterance on international peace and arbitration at Stock- 

 holm. He invoked a great past at Rome and the industrial future 

 at Brussels, with a few judicious words which showed he had no 

 prejudices regarding the Congo. 



This would be a life position. It w^ould carry a salary com- 

 mensurate with its importance. What is of far more weight in 

 dignity, in world-wide influence, in historic prestige and in genuine 

 importance and actual power, nothing would equal it. 



Much on the court has yet to be settled. The smaller powers 



are certain to protest. Powers with great territorial possession like 



Holland and Belgium are certain to protest. All South America 



will be loud in objection. The United States wishes no disorder 



there. 



AN ENGLISH ESTIMATE OF ROOSEVELT. 



The British Weekly thus speaks of our ex-President, whose 

 visit to Europe has touched the hearts of the people, both high and 

 low, in such a remarkable degree : 



" The attraction of Mr. Roosevelt is that he is America in the 

 flesh. When he speaks the American nation speaks. Therefore 

 we in Europe pay him heed, as we ought to, for the attitude of the 

 American people concerns us all. Red-blooded, warm-hearted, 

 reckless and wise, fierce and kind, a man of the world in the best 



