The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-06-08
ANOTHER CHARACTERISTIC
ROOSEVELT TALK YESTERDAY
The ex-President Is Given Degree by Oxford
and Delivers Forcefu Address.

doing the international duty of a great
power. But there are certain problems
which both of us have TO solve, and
as to which our standards should be
the same.
''No hard and fast.ruIe can be drawn
as applying to all alien races, because
they differ from one another far more
widely than some Of them differ from
us. But there are one or two rules
which must not be forgotten. Ia the
long run, there can be no justification
for one race managing or controlling
another unless the management and
control are exercised in the interest and
for the benefit Of that other race. This
is what our peoples have in the main
done. and must continue in the future
in even greater degree to do. in In
dia, Egypt and the Philippines alike
In the next place, as regards every
race, everywhere. at home or abroad.
we can not afford to deviate from the
great rule of righteousness which bids
Us treat each man on his worth rs d
man. He must not be sentimentallv
favored because he belongs to a given
race; he must not be given immunity
IN wrong-doIng, or permitted to cumber
the ground, or given other privileges
which would be denied to the vicious
and unfit among ourselves. On the
other hand, where he acts in a way
which would entitle him to respect and
reward if he Were of our own stock.
he is just as much entitled to that re
spect and reward if he comes Of an
other stock, even though that other
stock produces a much smaller proper
ton of men of his type than does our
own. This has nothing to DO with SO
cIal intermingling, with what is called
social equality. It has to do merely
with the question of doing to each man
and each woman that elementary ius-
tice which will permit him or her to
gain from life the reward which should
always accompany thrift. sobriety. self
control, respect for the rights of 9th
ers, and hard and intelligent work to
a given end. To more than such lust
treatment no man is entitled, and less
than such just treatment no man
should receive
1.-The other type of duty is the in
ternational duty, the duty owed by
one nation to another. | hold that the
laws of morality which should govern
individuals in their dealings one with
the other are just as binding concern
ing nations in their dealings one with
the other
"The foreign policy Of great and
self-respecting country should be con
Quoted on exactly the same plane Of
honor, of insistence upon ones own
rights and of respect for the rights of
others, as when brave and honorable
man IS dealing with his fellows Per
nit me to support this statement out
of my own experience. For nearly eight !
years / was the head of a great nation
and charged especially with the conduct
of its foreign policy; and during those
years | took no action with reference
to any other people on the face of the !
earth that [ would not have felt iusti- |
fed in taking as an individual in deal |
ing with other individuals.
Il believe that we of the great civil !
bzed nations Of today have a right to |
feel that long careers of achievement |
lie before our several countries. To /
each Of us is vouchsafed the honorable |
privilege of doing his part. however
small, in that work. Let us strive |
hardly for success even if by so doing |
we risk failure, spurning the poorer |
souls Of small endeavor who know |
neither failure nor success. Let us |
hope that our own blood shah continue |
in the land, that our children and chill |
dren 5 children to endless generations |
shall arise to take our places and play |
a mighty and dominant part in the |
world, But whether this be denied or |
granted by the years we shall not see. |