. Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-sixth president of the United States. A typical American . undesirable citizen in the com-munity. The man who becomes Europeanized,who loses his power of doing good work on thisside of the water, and who loses his love for hisnative land, is not a traitor; but he is a sUly andundesirable citizen. He is as emphatically anoxious element in our body politic as is the manwho comes here from abroad and remains a for-eigner. Nothing will more quickly disqualify aman from doing good work in the world than theacquirement of that flaccid habit of mind whichits possessors st
. Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-sixth president of the United States. A typical American . undesirable citizen in the com-munity. The man who becomes Europeanized,who loses his power of doing good work on thisside of the water, and who loses his love for hisnative land, is not a traitor; but he is a sUly andundesirable citizen. He is as emphatically anoxious element in our body politic as is the manwho comes here from abroad and remains a for-eigner. Nothing will more quickly disqualify aman from doing good work in the world than theacquirement of that flaccid habit of mind whichits possessors style cosmopolitan. That Mr. Roosevelt is didactic to a degreeone must admit; but that he is here expressinghis actual beliefs cannot be questioned. That isone of the things even his enemies admire. Hiswords are an utterance of himself, and whetherthey be true or false in themselves, they are trueto him. It is complimentary to his judgment thatwhile he has been speaking and writing in thisvein for more than twenty years he has never yethad to recede from his position, although he has. A TYPICAL AMERICAN. 41 often been worsted in battles for his ideals. Butwhether he wins or loses, he fights on. It hasmattered not to him whether the foe was thefierce cougar of the Eockies, the fetish-maddenedIndians of the Bad Lands, the corrupt officials ofa municipality or commonwealth, or the Spanishoppressors of Cuba; once he was arrayed againstthem there was no talk of quarter. Fortunatelyfor him he has generally been on the winningside. In his physical encounters this has beenalmost invariably the case. On the trail, in theforest, and in camp and field his adherents havealways proved faithful. Although an aristocratby birth and education, he has the true spirit ofcamaraderie, and generally makes firm friends ofhis associates in chivalric adventure. But poli-ticians are of different metal. In a political cam-paign there is always the personal equation to beconsidered, and the Fighting Teddy o
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