The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-04-24
RooSEVELr'S EAGERLY AWAIT.
ed LECTURE DELIVERED IN
THE soR1oNNE SATURDAY.
IMPORTANT FEATURE Of VISIT
Audience Was Composed OF All Mem.
bers OF the French Cabinet. Stu.
dents Selected from Universities
and Distinguished Guests

Paris. France. April % Theodore
\ Roosevelt delivered his eagerly oX.
\ pcctcd lecture on "Citizenship in "A
\ Republic" in the Sorbonnc this after.
noon
The audience was composed OF all
members Of the French cabinet. stu.
dents selected from the University
of Paris and many distinguished
guests by whom the occasion was
rcsardcd "a the most important fea.
u.rr of the distinguished Americans
visit To France.
In his lecture today at the Sor
I b nnc Col. Theodore Roosevelt spoke
or individual citizenship In the re-.
wb.i,s OF France and the United
| states. In part he eaid
"With you here. aud with us in my
own home. In the long run. success
or failure viii be- conditioned upon
the way In which the average man,
I the average woman, does his or her
| duty first In the ordinary. everyday
affairs Cf life, and next In those
great occasional crises which call
for the heroic virtues. The aver
/ age citizen must be a good citizen
ii our republics are to succeed. The
stream will not permanently rise
I higher than the main source. and
the main source of national power
and natian nal greatness Is found In
| the average citizenship of the ma.
tion. Therefore II behooycs us to dc
our best to see that the standard of
the average citizen is kept high and
the average cannot be kept high un-
less the standard Of the leaders Is
very much higher.
Il Is we'll II Il large proportion
of the leaders in any republic. in
any democracy, are. as matter Of
course. drawn from the classes rep
resented in this audience today; but
only provided that those classes
posses the gifts OF sympathy with
plain people and Of devotion to great
| ideals. You aud those like you nave
received special advantages. you have
an OF you had the opportunity for
mental training; many of you have
had leisure, most of You have had a
chance for the enjoyment OF life
far greater than comes to the ma.
iority OF your fellows To YOU and
your kind much has been given. and
from you much should be expected
1T Is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how
the strong man stumbles. or where
the docr Ot deeds could have done
them better. rho credit belongs 20
the man who is actually in the are
ma. whose face Is married by dust
and sweat and blood; VINO strives va
liantly; who errs, and comes short
again and again because there is
no effort without error and short
coming. but who does actually strive
To do the deeds who knows the
great enthusiasm, the great deyo.
tions who spends himself in wor.
thy cause: who AT the best know
u the end the triumph of high
, achievement. and who at the worst,
| II he fails, az least fails while dar.
ing greatly. 80 that his place ehall
never be- With those cold and tlmid
souls who know neither victory nor
defeat Shame On the man OF Culti-
waited taste who permits refinement
TO dcyol,p in "A fastid .ousuess that
uutits him for doing the rough work
of workaday world Among the
free peoples who govern themselves
. there is but small field OF useful.
ness open for the men Of cloistorod
/ lie who shrink from contact with
+ their follows. Still less room is there
/ for those who deride or elight what
+ rs done 10y those Who actually bear
the brunt 4 the day. nor get tog
those others who always profess thar
they would like 10 take action. II
only the conditions OF life were not
What they actually are
"T pay all homage T. intellect, aud
10 elaborate and specialized training