AGAINST ROOSEVELT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 816, 13 May 1910, Page 5

AGAINST ROOSEVELT.

BERLIN PRESS ATTACK. EX-PRESIDEXT IN FATHERLAND. tjy Telegraph—Press Assoclatiou —CppyrlKht. Berlin, May 11. Mr. Roosevelt and the Kaiser attended the German Army manoeuvres.

Tho "Berlin Post," the subsidised orgnn of the I'ree Conservatives, in a venomous attack asks what is the origin of Mr. lioosevelt's lame, which has' been trumpeted throughout tho world, not lenst by himself villi the coarsest methods of advertisement.

Regarding his so-called heroic deeds as leader of the Rough Eiders during the Spanihh-Ainorican Wa'v, Prussians,, fays the paper, term this a "potato war." The

'Tn=t" equally disparages Mr. Roosevelt's medial ion between Russia and .Japan with , respect to the war in Manchuria, loading to the Peace of Portsmouth. Mr.Koosevelt has accented the Special Ambassadorship of tho United States at the King's funeral.

MR. ROOSEVELT'S THUNDERBOLT,

Under this heading an English paper dated April 2 remarks:—"Mr. Roosevelt has hurled a thunderbolt into the camp of the Egyptian Nationalists. Those who went to the university in Cairo expecting to listen to compliments and platitudes must have come away with their ears tingling, for Mr. Roosevelt is not the man to. avoid the truth or to conceal its bitterness in honeyed words. That an exPresident of the United States should make a vigorous excursion into an alien field of politics may aniaze those who know not the moral courage of Mr. Roosevelt. .We have nothing but praise for tho dArihg that prompted him to read so stern a lesson within walls that custom alone, would describe as those of an institurjoh devoted to learning. Mr. Roosevelt i? entitled ro «pea,k with authority. He has had long experience in government, and during the last twelve months has had many opportunities of the difficulties ns well as the benefits of British, administration in Africa.

"With characteristic directness Mr. Roosevelt launched at once into the heart of the trouble. It is this. The youth of Egypt, as .of India, will persist in mistaking intellect for character and in imagining thnt n coating of veneer from tho West is the full panoply of a man. They fancy,, as Mr. Roosevelt . says, that a papeivconstitutiqu is a guarantee of the capacity of a nation for self-government. They judge of the contents of a parcel by its brown p'apor wrapper. The elementary truth, as we know froni centuries of struggle, is something altogether different. Tho qualities thnt save a pooplo and make them fit for independence are love of justice, fair play, self-reliance, and moderation. That these conditions are still foreign to Egypt, Mr. Rooavelt showed by' his denunciation of the murder of Boutros Pasha, the late Prime Minister, and of tho nttitude of tho Nationalists towards hie murderer. No event in-recent years has thrown so searching a light on the true character of the movement that would bring bnck the tyranny and injustice that crushed the life out" of Egypt and left' her for many centuries tho despised home of slavey and serfs.

"We trust that Mr. Roosevelt's courage' will have its reward. ■ He has spoken ns a stronger and n guest. Hβ has been known at times to: criticise British methods not- altogether favourably. But lie is a man with a mission whether he is living in the White House or in an hotel 'or in a tent, and he knows that the truth, however unploasnnt, is. a safer travelling companion than falsehood, however.plon-nnt." .