Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-30
ROOSEVELT TELLS
NATIONS FAULTS
TO HARVARD MEN
Graft, Demagogy and Unjust Use
of Wealth Cause SneerS
of Foreigners
PRAISES OUR GOOD POINTS
Colonel at Commencement Day
Sees Pierpont Morgan
Given Degree
PRAISES OUR GOOD POINTS
[Associated Pressl

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, June 29.-Guest
and host In one, Theodore Roosevelt
brought energy and animation to COM
mencenent day at Harvard univer-
sity today
The cheers that marked his passage
among the buildings of the ancient
yard indicated his position as chief
guest of the day, while his presence
at the head of the table at the COM
mencement luncheon in Memorial hall
was the token that he was host by
virtue of his Office of president of the
Harvard Alumni association.
1t was Roosevelt Of 'S0' today, and
he had busy time shaking hands with
old college friends.
When Governor Hughes of New York
received his honorary degree in San
ders hall, the audience burst into
great cheers and applause. j. Pierpont
Morgan, the New York financier, and
4 Gen. Horace Porter, former ambaSsa-
dor to France, also were awarded hon.
orary degrees.
Nearly 1000 young men received their
4 diplomas today.
Colonel Roosevelt tonight went to
Nahant as guest of Senator Lodge.
In opening the alumni meeting Colo
mel Roosevelt said in part:
II have been given honorary degrees
in certain foreign universities on the
continent of Europe and in Egypt I
am deeply grateful therefor; 1 appre-
ciate the honor.
ADVANTAGES OF AMERICA
ut was the keenest pleasure to me
to visit those universities. 1 admire
them with all my heart. And now,
having said that, you will not misun-
<1O,. xrhAv I haf Il a
back feeling more truly than ever that
the place for man to be educated is
his own home Let him be sent to
school and university here in the United
States. If he has a chance to take
a post graduate course elsewhere, ac-
cording as his tastes and needs die
4 tate, good; but let him have the foun-
dation laid here, where his citizen
ship must be exercised.
Let me also point out that you can
not be useful abroad unless you have
abroad the respect that only comes If
your usefulness has been proved at
home. No man ought to receive or
will receive respect abroad unless as
an American he has won his spurs In
American life.
zone more word and then I am
through. 1 was struck by two things
everywhere travelled abroad. One was
that the name America stood as
golden symbol of hope for all who felt
thev were downtrodden, that through
no fault of their own they had failed to
receive the justice to which they were
entitled in life. The name America
stood as a symbol of aspiration, of the
possibility of realizing ideals according
/ to which every man, rich or poor,
should be treated on his worth as
man and should be given an opportun-
ity to show that worth and to be judged
as he succeeds in showing it.
DESCRIBES OUR FAULTS
"That on one side. On the other
side, found everywhere a certain dis
heartened sense that we had not come
up to our ideals as there was ground
fer believing that we ought to have
come; that we had not achieved them
as we ought. Every instance Of cor
ruption, demagogy, of the unjust abuse
of wealth, the unjust use of wealth to
the detriment of the public, and the
improper acceptance by the public that
mere wealth in and of itself constituted
claim to regard in the community;
every instance of brutal materialiSm on
our part; every time that 1t was made
evident that the attitude of this coun-
try was such as ought not to be the at
titude of a democracy founded on the
principle upon which ours was founded;
every single instance serving to dim
the ideal that the name America con-
jured up in the minds of those in for
eign lands-every such instance served
as an excuse for those who with a
sneer bid mankind halt where it is be-
cause the ideals that set before us are
the ideals of dreamers only.
'Now, you Harvard men here, you
men of America, If you won't see that
your home is put in order for your own
5sakes, | suppose it would be useless to
ask you to put it in order for the sake
of other men; and yet 1 cannot imag-
inc more stirring appeal being made
to any people than this we'll nigh voice.
less appeal from those who in other
lands have not had the treatment to
which they are in justice entitled, who
appeal to us to manage our republic !
according to the highest standards of
morality and decency, so that they can
keep unshaken their faith in a realiza-
bla IDEAL"