A week in the White House with Theodore Roosevelt; a study of the President at the nation's business . world. Itis the greatest exhibition that has everbeen given of democracy and of mingHng of Senators and Justiceswith cattlemen and railroad mechanicsin the audience-room of the head of anation is a thing to ponder on, and51 52 XTbe Spirit of when you consider that he is the mostautocratic spirit the Republic has seenin power and yet behold him do morehomage to the rights of democracyand magnify them beyond any prede-cessor, the wonder becomes a phe-nomenon for history to resolve. P
A week in the White House with Theodore Roosevelt; a study of the President at the nation's business . world. Itis the greatest exhibition that has everbeen given of democracy and of mingHng of Senators and Justiceswith cattlemen and railroad mechanicsin the audience-room of the head of anation is a thing to ponder on, and51 52 XTbe Spirit of when you consider that he is the mostautocratic spirit the Republic has seenin power and yet behold him do morehomage to the rights of democracyand magnify them beyond any prede-cessor, the wonder becomes a phe-nomenon for history to resolve. President Roosevelt is a ruler. Wedont use the word in this country, anddont Hke it. But we have the fact—and it is evident we do like it. NoEuropean sovereign rules as Rooseveltrules. But he does it by sheer forceof character—and let us save our facesby adding, by the consent and desire ofthe people, who believe him to beright in what he demands. He does ntdo it (this is my point here) by bring-ing into play any mysterious powerinherent in his office. He doesntdo it by surrounding himself with. THE PRESIDENT AT HIS DESK From a photograph by H. C. White Co., X. Copyright, 1908 XCbe TObttc Ibouse 53 the circumstance of supreme is primus inter pares by virtue of agrim determination to be, assisted by asincerity and perspicacity such as po-litical opposition has never before metand now does not know how to President is imperious because hethinks he is right. He will meet allcomers, on the ground without handi-cap, and have it out fairly, and maybehotly. There is just this much formal-ity about it: everybody says , and everybody rises whenthe President does. There is all properdecorum, but it is the decorum thatis observed among gentlemen every-where. In the midst is the ExecutiveChair of the patriotic orators; ifthere be any reality correspondingto that pleasing symbol, it is the leatherthrone from which the President pre- 54 ^be Spirit ot sides ov
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