The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30
BOTH GUEST AND HOST.
Colonel Roosevelt Puts Animation Into
Harvard Commencement.

Cambridge, June 30-Guest and host
in one Theodore Roosevelt brought en-
ergy and animation to commencement
today at Harvard university. The
cheers that marked his passage to and
fro among the buildings OF the an
Client yard indicated his position as
chief guest of the day, while his pres
ence at the head of the table of the
commencement luncheon in memoria |
nail was the token that he was host by
virtue of his office as president of the
Harvard alumni association. In open-
Ing the alumni meeting Col Roosevelt
said in part:
In the first place I come here with
an increased and hearty friendship and
good will for other countries. 1 have
visited many nations, and the more
see of decent people of other national
tiles the more 1 realize the truth Of
Abraham Lincoln's statement that
there is a deal of human nature in
mankind A good man is a good man
anywhere and a scoundrel ought to be
made to pay the penalty of his scoun-
drelism whatever his birthplace or ma
tionality and yet with that feeling
there has come a constantly increasing
understanding on my part of the fact
that the man who wishes to be a good
citizen of the world must first and
foremost be a good citizen of his own
country.
II have been given honorary degrees
in certain foreign universities on the
continent of Europe and in Egypt 1 am
deeply grateful therefor; / appreciate
the honor. 1t was the keenest pleasure
to me to visit these universities. 1 adj
mire them with all my heart. And
now, having said that. you will not
misunderstood me when 1 say that 1
come back feeling more truly than ever
that the place for a man to be educated
is his own home. Let him be sent to
school and to the university here in the
United States. If he has a chance to
take post graduate course elsewhere,
accordingly as his tastes and needs die
tate, good; but let him have the
foundations laid here, where his citi-
zenship must be exercised.
Symbol of Hope.
Il was struck by two things every
where that 1 Travelled abroad. One was
that the name America stood as a
golden symbol of hope for all who felt
that they 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
ton, of the possibility of realizing ideals
according to which each man rich or
poor should be treated on his worth as
a man and should be given an oppor-
tunity to show that worth and to be
judged as he succeeds in showing it
That on one side. On the other side
L found everywhere a certain disheart
ened sense that we had not come up 10
our ideals as there was ground for be-
neving that we ought to have come;
that we had not achieved them as we
ought; and every instance of eorrup-
ton, of demagogy, of the unjust abusa
of wealth to the detriment of the pub
lie and the improper acceptance of 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 it was made evident that the at
titude OF this country was such as
ought not to be the attitude of a de-
mocracy founded on the principles
upon which ours was founded-every
such instance served to dim the ideal
that the name America conjured up in