The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-04-29
ROOSEVELT IN PARIS
Should Not Be Fop or Cynic, but
Father Of Family.

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\ Paris, April %. TO use Col. Roose
velt's own words, to-day marked the
GROWING Of his career rs man, Of let
ters From noon until midnight he
was the guest Of intellectual Paris, par.
ticipating as a member at a session ol
the French Academy, delivering lee
ture at the Sorbonne which, as he him
self said, was the foremost seat of learn
ing in Europe before America was dis
covered and remaining as the guest OF
the faculty for dinner and the grand re-
ception given by the university in his
honor.
Col. Roosevelt's reception at the
French Institute and the Sorbonne
we're equally impressive, but in a differ
ent way. At the former he was intro
duced merely as member and he took
seat among his distinguished con-
ferees, most OF whom have grown old
in the service Of science.
After listening to the words OF NJ.
Boutrox, the president of the Academy
Of Moral and Political Sciences, who
spoke eloquentIy OF American ideals
and character, of which, he said, Theo-
dore Roosevelt was the best exponent,
the former President of the United States
replied in French, his utterances arous-
ing his venerable colleagues to unwonted
applause.
DEMONSTRATION AT soRBoNNE.
At the Sorbonne no attempt was made
to restrain the demonstrations. The fa-
cade bristled with American and French
flags and fully $4,000 persons packed
the streets and acclaimed Col. Roosevelt
on his arrival. Within the building the
enthusiasm was unbounded, the vast
crowd in the amphitheater interrupting
again and again with storms OF applause
as the speaker defined the duties Of in
diyidual citizenship in republic, scorn-
ing the sluggards, cyhics and idle rich
and preaching the gospel ofsofk, char
acter and the strenuous life.
Several times he interiected observa-
tions in French and after he had defined
bis attitude on the subject of human
rights and property rights he repeated |
this in French, saying that it constituted |
The crux Of what he had to say and he
desired everyone to understand him.
His words in this connection were:
My position as regards the moneyed
interests can be put up in few words.
In every civilized society property rights
must be carefully safeguarded. Ordi-
larily and in the great majority OF cases
human rights and property rights are
and in the long run iden-
ical. But when it clearly appears that
here is a real conflict between them
human rights must have the upper
land, for property belongs to man and
lot man to property. :"
GOT JEFFERsoN's BUST.
He made his auditors clearly realize i
hat he considered republican institu- ,
ions still on trial, both in America and !
rance. i
The distinguished personages occupy ]
ng seats on the estrade, who included,
esides the deans OF the various faculties /
| the universities, Premier BRAND and Z
is entire cabinet and such men as Leon :
former premier; Anatole Le- /
oy- Beaulieu, director ofthe Institute Of !
rance; Jules Poincare, Jules Claretic, I
abriel Hanotaux, Marquis de Sager, Il
ne historian, and Paul Derchanet, were n
vidently quite as much impressed as
le students and other auditors in front, il
,ining heartily in the applause, and es- il
ecially when he spoke against race sui a
de and the necessity of nation to per- b