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"Teddyf’ Offered
His Roughriders
for Mexican War
Letter to Lodge Keveals
Origin of Plan
for Cowboy
Cavalry.
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(Most of Theodore Roosevelt * time
for severs) year* was spent on hi*
Dakota ranches, whence he wrote reg
ularly to his friend, Henry Cabot
Lodge.)
Klkhorn Ranch, Medora, Dakota,
April 16, 1SS6.
Dear Cabot:
I got the three horse thieves In fine
style. My two main men and I ran
down the river three days In our boat
and then came on their ramp by sur
prise. As they knew there was no
other boat on the river hut the one
they had taken and as they had not
thought of our building another they
were taken completely unawares, one
with his rifle on the ground, and the
others with thelra on their shoulders;
so there was no fight, nor any need
of pluck oh our part.
We simply crept noiselessly up and
rising when only a few yards distant
(overed them with the cocked rifles
while I told them to throw up their
hands. They saw that we had the
drop on them completely and I guess
they rIso saw that we surely meant
shooting If they hesitated, and so
their hands went up at once. We
kept them with lit nearly a week, be
ing caught in an Ice jam; then we
• atiie to a ranch where I got a wagon,
and I sent, my two men on down
sfc’-oam with the boat, while I took
the three captives overland, a two
days journey', to a town where I could
give them to the sheriff. I was pretty
sleepy when I got there ss I had to
keep awake at night a good deal in
guarding, and we had gotten out of
fond, and the cold had been intense.
I am as brown and as tough as a
hickory nut now.
Tours always,
T. R.
Klkhorn Ranch, Medora, Dakota,
May 21, 'S6.
Dear Cabot:
This spring T have done enough
antelope shooting to keep the ranch
In venison. Really, I enjoy' tills life;
with books, guns and horses, and this
free, open air existence, It would he
singular If I did not.
Give my best love to Nannie, Good
bye, old fellow
Tours always,
T. R.
» Klkhorn Ranch, Medora, Dakota,
June 7, '$*.
Dear Cabot:
I have been on th# round-up for i
fortnight, almost steadily. When we
started, there were 60 men In the sad
rile who splashed across the shallow
ford of the river; every one a bold
rider, and everyone on a good horse.
It has been great fun; but hard work
—14 to 16 hours every day. Break
fast comes at three; and 1 am pretty
sleepy, all the time.
In your Webster* I notice you
quote Browning's "Love Among the
Ruins:" that has always been one of
my favorite poems. But wliat made
him write such Infernal nonsense, as,
for example, "Another Way of Love?"
That lntelllectual prank can't be even
parsed, much less understood. It
Isn't obscure: it's unintelligible. When
he writes some such sentence as "In
flammable red Giotto qualifies pota
toes," while I confess I don't under
stand it, 1 also humbly admit he may
use the words In a poelir sense which
mv coarse nature can't grasp; hut
when he use* qualifying word* that
qualify nothing, a predicate with no
object, and sentences or alleged sen
tences, that are fortunate It they
have one of the three part* I was
taught to consider indispensable
when I studied grammar—why then
I rebel.
Tours ever,
T. R.
. *My "Life of Webster.”—II. C. L.
Sagamore Hill, July 2T>, 'S6.
M.v Dear Gabot:
I was amused at a remark of Stan
ley Mortimer's which was repeated to
m*. He was explaining who I was to
aomebody whom he had told that I
was a member of th* hunt; and, to
localize me, said that I was a man
who "wrote,” and being asked what,
responded with some hesitation that
he believed I "wrote speeches." Thank
heaven he did not think I wrote
poems," at any rate.
tours always,
THEODORE ROOSEVENT.
(In the next letter Roosevelt Is
found using th# term "roughriders,"
which w»* to become famous all over
th# world In a later decade 1
Klkhorn, Ranch, Medora, Dakota,
Aug. 10, '**.
Dear Cabot:
Just a line to make a request.
I have wltten on to Hecretnrv Kn
Today
If elcome, Mr. President!
To llim That Hath.
Born in It, Buried in It.
Pneumococcus Says 'Come.'
By ARTHUR BRISBANE.
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To Calvin Coolidge, inaugurated
today, welcome to the presidency
of the United States, on your own
hook, with a vote and a plurality
bigger than any other president
ever got.
The people know that your one
desire is to serve them faithfully.
They believe that you will be suc
cessful in your effort to increase
prosperity, and opportunity, and
demonstrate the soundness of the
theory underlying this government,
that the people are able to govern
themselves.
“To him that hath."
This is written in I.os Angele?,
looking over the city from the top
of the Ambassador hotel.
S. W. Straus, who owns the Am
bassador here, in New York and in
Atlantic City, and has done more
than any other American to make
up for the building shortage, is a
good judge of real estate.
He says:
“California has not even begun
to move. Newspapers talk about
‘the second million in Los Angeles
population.’ That second million
will be here and the third million
on the way before the people real
ize it. A city situated as this is,
grows like a rolling snowball.
“Everything fundamental that a
state could need was here from the
beginning—climate, location, fer
tility. The two things needed, pop
ulation and capital, are pouring in
dicott offering to try to raise some
companies of horse riflemen out here
in the event of trouble with Mexico.
Will you telegraph me at once If war
becomes Inevitable? Out here things
are so much behind hand that 1
might not hear the news for a week.
I haven’t the least idea there will he
any trouble, but as my chance of
doing anything In the future worth
doing seems to grow continually
smaller I intend to grasp at every
opportunity that turns up.
I think there is some good fighting
stuff among these harum-scarum
roughriders out here; whether I can
bring It nut is another matter.
Always your.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Sagamore Hill, Oct. 10* '86.
Dear Cabot:
1 won In my primary contest, I was
asked to take part In the Maine and
Ohio campaigns; but could not, for I
have an awful amount of work to (lo
here.
Give my best love to Nannie.
Of course if there is any earthly
thing I can do to help you in your
campaign I will be only too glad to
do it.»
Yours always.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
•Tn nry campaign for Congresa—
H. C. 1a
Sagamore Hill. Oct. 17, ’86.
Dear Cabot:
•lust two hour* after writing you
my last card. 1 was visited by a suc
cession of the influential republican*
of the city to entreat me to take the
nomination for mayor. AVIth the most
genuine reluctance I finally accepted
It. It is. of course, a perfectly hope
less contest, the chance for success
being so very small that 1t may l>e
left out of account. Rut they want to
get a united republican party in thia
city and to make a good record be
fore the people. T am at the head of
an unexceptionable ticket. They aeem
to think that my name would he the
strongest they could get, and were
most urgent for me to run: and 1 did
not well see how I could refuse.
If T make a good run It will not
hurt me; but tt will If I make a had
one. as Is very likely. Many of the de
cent republicans are panicky over
George,• whose canvass Is not at all
dangerous, being mainly wind. If the
panic grows thousands of my support
ers will go to Hewitt**, for fear
George may be elected—a perfectly
groundless emotion. The Evening
Post is for Hewitt, and is harping
vigorously on the string. So It 1*
quite on the cards that I will be most
hopelessly defeated. All that T hop*
for. at the best, is to make a good run
and get out the republican vole, you
see t have over 40.000 majority
against me. If I could have kept out.
I would never have been In the con
test.
Always your*.
T R
•Henry George, the famous single
taxer, mayoralty candidate of th*
United Labor party In New York
city.
••Abram S, Hewitt, democratic
nominee for mayor, who won In the
subsequent election.
(To Up t’ontlnued Tomorrow.)
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"To him that hath shall he
given.” When you have nearly
everything, the rest is given to you.
Today the federal government
starts spending six and a half mil
lions improving the Los Angeles
harbor, which you ur.e proudly
told, already has a traffic second
only to New York among the har
bors of the United States.
Far more important than any
thing Hie government, or the east
could do are the things that the peo
ple of California are now doing
tor themselves. The Imperial Val
ley this year will produce $ Cl,000,
000 worth of long staple cotton, as
good as any grown in Egypt.
The next step will be to make
that cotton into cloth out here, in
stead of shipping it to eastern mills
and eastern workers.
An intense effort is made to build
up industry, all sorts of manufac
turers here. The people of Cali
fornia realize that apart from the
prosperous few, the thing that new
citizens look for is a chance to make
a living.
California’s population will in
crease from 4,000.000 to 20,000,
000 long before this century ends.
And California is determined to
find useful, profitable occupation
for the new millions. •
Ebert, Germany’s dead president,
will be buried as a Roman Catholic,
the rites of the church performed
by Father Mass of Heidelberg.
Ebert spent his life as a Socialist,
he and his fellows rather hostile to
religion as "a power seeking to
make workmen contented and
obedient in their miserable condi
tion."
But born in the Catholic church,
he will he buried in it. Death, when
it comes, is a strange, overwhelm
I ing thing, and the average mind
.turns eagerly to some power that
-ays with confidence, “Leave all to
| me."
William Andrews ('lark, formerly
senator from Montana, now lying
dead in his magnificent New York
j palace, began with nothing in the
usual way, ami got many millions,
lie could say to others, "Come and
go.” They went and came as he
bade them.
Thousands worked for him, in
cluding many politicians. He had
money, and that is power.
Byt all the money and power, all
the doctors, with all their advice,
will not free the richest, man when
the deadly microscopic pneumococ
cus appears.
That infinitesimal pneumonia
germ has no millions of dollars, no
bank account. But when it says
"Come,” the richest man must fol
low.
Warning to rich and poor, keep
up your vitality with sunshine,
sleep, wise eating, peace of mind.
Only wisdom will fight the germ;
money will not do it.
Harry S. Sinclair knows about
oil, and says the supply will not
last. The ordinary man, told that
:i(HU)0U,000 barrels are stored
above ground, asks, "Why worry?”
Mr. Sinclair says this country
will use up the 300,000,000 barrels
in 130 days.
It is fortunate that President
Coolidge is interested in oil conser
vatism. Scientists employed by the
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