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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 7, 12 August 1908, Page 50

DOMINION OF -- NEW ZEALAND - AUCKLAND, HIS EXCELLENCY THEODORE ROOSEVELT, , , t no 10th August, 1908. PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WASHINGTON. Vour Excellency. ■ ' ... ’ ' ' The Fleet of your Nation is in our waters to-day. and we fee! prompted by the universal and fervid enthusiasm with which its visit has been welcomed by the people of New Zealand to send you, through Rear-Admiral Charles S. Sperry, who has kindly consented to be the bearer, a token and a message of their admiration and regard for you and for your life's work. The small bands of pioneers that little more than half a century ago left their Motherland to seek a new home in these far-off islands, brought hearts and hands resolute and strong to meet to fight and overcome the vicissitudes and dangers of their environments and isolation. Theirs was the strenuous life, which, in them and in the generation now succeeding them, has produced those virtues of which your own career has been such a splendid exemplar—courage, rectitude, and self-reliance. We make this reference to our people but to remind you how much their spirit and experience is in harmony with your own, and how such a life as yours strikes and stirs them. That Great Western Frontier, with its hardships, its dangers, so much the field of your earlier activities and successes, is not without its parallel in our own short history. We, too, have had our ‘'Winning of the West,” and hence can feel for your indomitable courage and endurance thab true sympathy and admiration which a common experience alone can produce. To us, a young and vigorous people, the crowning grace of life is manliness, and to ourselves and to our children your name and your magnificent achievements as soldier, pioneer, and statesman are household words for manly honour. We like to believe you typify your nature, and in that belief we feel prouder still of our old Anglo-Saxon race, and still closer drawn to that great people whose aims and destinies your counsel and your conduct as their President has so profoundly influenced. The lessons not only of your life, but of your pen, have reached us, and every book, pamphlet, and letter which bears the name of Theodore Roosevelt is read with sympathy and genuine appreciation. Our earnest hope is that, when you have laid down the burden of your great office, the restless, generous, strenuous soul we know now but from afar, will bring you to our shores, that we may see and meet the man we so respect, and in dear words of living, human speech get his message to our people. • . In this hope, ... .. Sir, ■’ . .. Gy-. We have the honour to subscribe ourselves, JU, , * [Copy of the Address by the Government to President Roosevelt.]