NATION GREETS COLONEL ROOSEVELT. 



and, although he has borne himself always as the plain American 

 citizen, he has received the tribute generally paid in Europe only to 

 royalty. No other citizen has ever caused such a furor abroad. 

 Yet except for a few startling sentences in his speeches at Cairo 

 and at the Guildhall in London, he has expressed only those ideas of 

 human progress and the requirements of modern civilization he has 

 often expressed before, and has been, in every aspect, the Roosevelt 

 we have known so long. 



" Politics, as we have said, played but an insignificant part in 

 his reception. The programme of the ceremony had been in pre- 

 paration a long time, to be sure. But the enthusiasm displayed was 

 not of the quality that can be artificially stimulated. We must take 

 it as a spontaneous outpouring of popular feeling. 



COMMENT OF A WELL-KNOWN PHILADELPHIA EDITOR. 



The following article was written by a well-known Philadelphia 

 editor : " It is no exaggeration to say that the eyes of the nation are 

 turned toward New York. It is equally within the truth to say that 

 the sturdy, vigorous American whose home-coming was marked 

 by such an outburst of tumultuous enthusiasm has even a greater 

 degree of popularity and influence among the masses of his own 

 countrymen than when he left the soil of this Republic on the tour 

 which has taken him over half the world. 



" Absence has not diminished his prestige, but increased it. 

 Whether Roosevelt has been facing lions in Africa, meeting mon- 

 archs in Europe, or admonishing distinguished audiences in the older 

 centres of civilization, his acts and words have been keenly noted 

 by a large majority of the nation over which he presided as Chief 

 Magistrate. Distance has magnified his personality, emphasized 

 the aggressive virility which is his foremost characteristic, and added 

 to the interest with which he has been regarded. 



" This is an undeniable fact. It cannot be questioned by those 

 who oppose his policies and condemn his methods as a public leader. 

 It is accepted with jubilation bv the enormously greater host of 

 those who attach little importance to errors that he has committed, 



