NATION GREETS COLONEL ROOSEVELT. 



Reception Unequaleeb in Country's History Accorded Re- 

 turning Hero — Millions Cheer Him — Guns Roar — 

 Whistles Shriek Grand Greetings on Land and Water 

 — Pageants Mark His Triumphant Return. 



THEODORE ROOSEVELT, the most distinguished citizen of 

 the United States, is once more at home. He was received 

 at New York with the nearest approach we can arrange to the tri- 

 umphs with which Rome honored its generals on returning from a 

 conquest of the world. Theodore Roosevelt has stirred Africa and 

 Asia and has conquered Europe and the American people could not 

 with self-respect pay less honors to their most striking representa- 

 tive and embodiment than he had received from foreigners. 



The people like him. They like him for his frankness, his 

 colloquial language, his free and easy air, his lack of conventionality 

 and ceremony and officialism. Perhaps they liked him best of all 

 because the national traits are uncommonly well developed in him. 

 He presents strikingly the national virtues. He is strong, breezy, 

 good humored and quick in resentment, informal and can on occa- 

 sions be chiding and reproving. 



Mr. Roosevelt's popularity is enormous and it is deserved. It 

 is creditable to the American people that they like him, even if he 

 has limitations, and some of them rather conspicuous. He was 

 honored in Europe because he was an ex-President of the United 

 States, but they liked him personally. Undeniably he made a tre- 

 mendous impression all the way from Cairo to Oxford. He added 

 to our national prestige. 



Mr. Roosevelt is a man of great force and of uncommonly 

 likable qualities. His countrvmen are proud of him and they are 

 immensely pleased that he made so much of a sensation in Europe. 



