The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-04-23
Roosevelt Delivered Address
in Paris Today
DENOUNCED RACE SUICIDE
He Also Talked About Money and He
Declared That Human Rights Stand
Supreme to Property
Rights.

Paris, April 2g-At the famous uni.
versity Of Sorbonue. Theodore Roosevelt
delivered to-day the FIRST Of bis four set
lectures IN Europe, To an audience COM.
posed largely Of the faculty and stu.
dents, with one hundred OF more distin-
guished Franchmen Of letters One Of
his main points was the denuneiation
Of race suicide
On this subject he said; Finally
even more important than ability "a
work. even more important than ability
to fight at need, IS IL to remember that
the chief Of blessings for any nation IS
that it shall leave its seed to inherit
the land, Il was the crown of blessings
iu biblical times; and IL IS the crown
OF blessings now The greatest Of an
curses is the curse Of steriity. and the
aeverest Of all condemnations should be
that visited upon wilful steriiity. The
first essential In any civilization n that
the man and the woman shall Be father
and mother of healthy children, So that
the race shall increase and not decrease.
'If this is not so, If through no fault
Of the society there is failure to increase,
It is great misfortune II the failure
is due to deliberate and wiilful fault
then it il not merely a misfortune. it is
one Of those crimes Of case and SELF
indulgence. Of shrinking from pain ana
effort and risk, which in the long run
nature Furnishes more heavily than any
other
If We Of the great republics II we, the
free people who claim 70 have emanci-
pated ourselves from the thfaldom of
wrong and error. bring down on orr
heads the curse that comes upon tie win.
fully barren, then It viii BE an idle waste
Of breath to prattle Of om achievements.
70 boast Of all that we have done No
refinement Of life, no delioaey of taste,
no material progress, NO sofdid heapng
up Of riches. no sensuous development of
art and literature, can in any way COM
pensate for the loss Of the great funda
mental virtues and Of these great funda
meHtal virtues the greatest is the races
power to perpetuate the race
He also spoke about capital, as fol
lows: Ny position as regards the mon.
eyed interests can be put in a very few
words. n every civilized society. prop
erty rights must be carefully safeguard
81. Ordinarily and III great majority
of eases human rights and property
fighfs are fundamentally and in he
long run. identical; but when It learlv
appears that there is real conflict
between them, human rights must have
the upper hand, ior property belongs to
man and rot man to property
In concluding his address, Roosevelt
said And now my hosts, word ia
parting. You and / belong to the only
two republics among the great powers
Of the world. The ancient friendship be
tween France and the United States has
been On the whole, sincere and disin. I
terested friendship. a calamity to you
would be sorrow to rs.
But It would be more than that. IN
the seething turmoil Of the history Of /
humanity, cert@n nations stand out as
possessing a peculiar power OF charm Z
some special gift Of beauty or wisdom of
strength, which puts them among the
immortals, which makes them rank for
ever with the leaders Of mankind.
France II one Of these nations. For 4
Her to sink would be a loss to sl thaE
world. There are certain lessons Of bril-
lance and of generous aallanffy tiiat 4
she can teach better than any Of her
sister nations When the French peas
sntry sang Of Malbrook, Il was to telllf
how the soul Of this warriorfoe took
flight upward through the laurels he had
won. Nearly seven centuries ago. Ffos
sart. writing 81 a time Of dire disaster,
said that The realm Of France was never
so stricken that there were not left men
who would yaliantly fight for Il.
lou have he'd q great past. / believe
that Fon Will have q great future Long
may you carry yourselves proudly as
citizens Of 9 nation which bears q leading
part in the teaching and uplifting Of
mankind