The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-04-23
AUDIENCE INCLUDED
THE ELITE OF FRANCE
Occasion Regarded as Most
Important Feature Of AmeTi-
cans Visit 10 France
(By Associated rress.)

Paris, April 23-Col. Roosevelt de
liyered his eagerly awaited lecture on
citizenship in a Republic in the
Sorbonne this afternoon. The audi
ence was composed Of all the members
of the French cabinet students Sc
lected from the University Of Paris,
and many distinguished guests by
whom the occasion was regarded as
the most important feature of the dis
tinguished Americana visit to France.
Urges Good Citizenship.
with you here, and with us III my
own home, in the long run, success or
failure will be conditioned upon the
way in which the average man, the
average woman, does his or her duty
first in the ordinary, everyday al
fairs OF life, and next in those great
occasional crises which call for the
heroic virtues. The average citizen
must be good citizen If our repub-
lies are to succeed The stream will
not permanently rise higher than The
main source; and the main source
lof national power and national great
ness is found in the average citizen.
ship Of the nation. Therefore II be-,
.hooyes us to do our best tq see that
Athc~ Standard OF ne average citizen
Is kept high; and the average cannot
be kept high unless the standard oil
of the leaders is very much higher.
ut Is well if a large proportion OF
the leaders in any republic, In any
democracy, are, as a matter OF course
drawn from the classes represented
in this audience today; but only pro
vded that those classes possess the
gifts of sympathy with plain people,
and Of devotion TO great ideals. You
and those like you have received spe-
cial advantages, you have all of yOu
had the opportunity for mental train
ing, many OF you have bad leisure,
most of you have had chance for
the enjoyment of life far greater than
comes to The majority Of your fel
lows. TO YOU and yonr kind much has
been given, and from you much should
be expected.
The Striver that Counts.
1T Is mol the critic who counts; not
the man who points out how the
strong man stumbles, or where the
doer Of deeds could have done them
better. The credit belongs 10 the man
who Is actually IN the arena, whose
face is marred by dust and sweat and
| blood who strives vallantly; who
errs, aud comes short again and again,
! because there Is no effort Without err
for and shortcomng; but who does
actually strive to do the deeds; who
knows the great enthusiasm, the great
deyotlons, who spends himself in o
worthy cause; who at the best knows
in the end the triumph of high
/ achievement and who at the worst, II
| he fails, AT least fails while daring
greatly, so that his place shall never
| be with those cold and timid souls
/ who know neither victory nor defeat.
| Shame on the man OF cultivated taste
who permits refinement TO develop In
fastidousness that units him for
doing the rough work OF a workaday
world. Among the free peoples who
/ govern themselves there Is but a
small field of usefulness open for the
/ men Of cloistesed life who shrink from
contact with their fellows. Still less
room is there for those who deride Oh
Slight what Is done by those who ac
| tually bear the brunt OF the day; mol
vet for those Others who always pro
fess that they would like TO take ac
ton, ii only the conditions of thf
were not what they actually are.
y pay all homage lo intellect ant
to elaborate and specialized training
of the intellect; and yet | know
shall have the assent OF all OF yol
present when | add that more import
ant still are commonplace, eyery.da,
qualities and virtue.
Train Every Man to Work.
Such ordipaey, everyday qualities
include the will and the power t
work, the fight at need, and to hay,
plenty OF healthy children. There ar
few people in every country so bori
that they can lead lives OF leisure
These fill useful function IL the
make il evident that leisure does no
mean idleness. But the average ma
must earn his own livelihood. II
: should be trained to do SO, and h
should be trained TO feel that he ocet
pies contemplate position II he doe
Z not do so: that he is not an object 0
I envy II he is idle, at whichever en-
/. of the social scale he stands. but a
) object Of contempt, an object Of dt
rision.
In the next place, the good ma
E should De DotA sLfons aud : Llas
I man: that Is. he should be able I
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