Great-Heart

Great-Heart: The Life Story of Theodore Roosevelt is by Daniel Henderson, with an introduction by Major-General Leonard Wood, U. S. Army. A line credited to Rudyard Kipling says it is as though Bunyan’s Mr. Greatheart had died in the midst of his pilgrimage, for he was the greatest proved American of his generation. The text calls Captain Bourke another warm admirer of Colonel Roosevelt and says he received from Roosevelt his first promotion after he had arrested Mike Callahan, owner of a saloon at Mott Street and Chatham Square, who had been violating the excise law.

At the head of a division was a stout German, who shouted scornfully in German “Now, where is that Roosevelt?”, and Mr. Roosevelt, leaning over the side of the stand, queried, also in German, “Here I am.” A quoted passage about nations says each nation must keep well prepared to defend itself until the establishment of some form of international police power, competent and willing to prevent violence as between nations.