The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-04-23
INFORMED
OF CITIZENSHIP
IN The REPUBLIC
Colonel Roosevelt Tells the
French People Why the
American Nation Has Sue
ceeded in Efforts.
VIEWS ON SOCIALISM I.
ARE APTLY EXPRESSED
Ex-president Again Demands
Large Families: Talks ot
| Mans Chief Duty and Dan.
ger Of Class Hatred.

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Paris. April 23.-ColoneI Theodore
Roosevelt delivered the following nd
dress on citizenship In Republic" at |
the Sorbonne:
Strange and impressive associations |
rise In the mind Of a man from the |
new world who speaks before this au- |
gust body in this ancient institution
OF learning. Before his eyes pass the |
shadows OF mighty kings and warlike
mobiles. of great masters Of law and
theology. Through the shining dust
OF the dead centuries he sees crowded
figures that tell of the power and
learning and splendor Of times gone
by, and he sees also the innumerable
host Of humble students to whom
clerkship meant emancipation. to
whom it was well nigh the only outlet
from the dark thraldom of the middle
ages.
Today l shall speak to you on the
subject Of individual citizenship, the
one subject Of vital Importance to you.
my hearers. and to me and my coun-
trymen. because you and we are citi-
Gems Of great democratic republics, A
democratic republic such as each of
ours-an effort to realize In its full
sense government by, Of and for the
people-represents the most gigantic
OF oil possible social experiments. the
one fraught with greatest possibilities
alike for good and for evil.
The success Of republics like yours
and like ours means the glory and our
failure the despair OF mankind, and
for you and for US the question Of the
quality Of the Individual citizen is SUI
preme.
70 Succeed 10 Good.
With you here and with US In 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 affairs
of life and next IN those great occa-
sional crises which call for the heroic
virtues The average citizen must be
good citizen X our republics are to
succeed.
Let the man Of learning. the man Of
lettered leisure, beware OF that queer
and cheap temptation to pose to him.
self and to others as the cynic, as the
man who has outgrown emotions and
beliefs, the man to whom good and
evil are as one. The poorest way to
face life is to face 1t with q sneer.
There is no more unhealthy being.
no man less worthy Of respect, than he
who either really holds or feigns to
bold an attitude OF sneering disbelief
toward all that Is great and lofty.
whether In achievement or In that no
BILE effort which. even IL 1t fail. comes
second to achievement.
Shame on the man OF cultivated taste
who permits refinement to develop into
| q fastidiousness that units him for
doing the rough work OF workaday
world. Among the free peoples who
govern themselves there ID but small
neld OF usefulness open for the men
OF cloistered life who shrink from con-
tact with their fellows.
| No Room For Siiahtsrs.
| Still less room is there for those who
deride or slight what Is done by those
who actually bear the brunt OF the
day nor yet for those others who al
ways profess that they would like to
/ take action II only the conditions 81
life were not what they actually are
/ The man who does nothing cuts the
4 same sordid figure In the pages OF his
| tory. whether he be cynic or fop OF
/ voluptuary.
| It is war worn Hotspur, spent with
hard fighting, he Of the many errors
and the valiant end. over whose mem
DRY we love to linger, not over the
4 memory Of the young lord who "bui
for the vile guns would have been q
soldier"
The good man should be both q
strong and q brave man-that is, BIZ
should be able to nght. he should b.
able to serve bis country as q soldier
II the need arises There are vel
meaning philosophers who declaiu
against the unrighteousness OF war
They are right only II they lay al
their emphasis upon the unrighteous
ness. War Is dreadful thing, and
unjust war Is crime against human
ity. But It Is such q crime because :
Il unjust. not because IL is war.
i The choice must ever be in favor u
righteousness and this whether tn
alternative be peace or whether TIL
alternative be war. The question mus
not be merely. IL there TO be peace O
war; The question must be. Is tn,
right TO prevail?
4 Are the great laws Of righteousness
4 once more 10 be fulfilled? And the an
swer from strong and virile peopl
must he Ties. whatever the cost
Every honorable effort should AWAY
be made TO avoid wax. just rs ever.
honorable effort should always b
made By fhe individual. In private lie
20 keep out Of . bf1wi. TO keep out o
trouble. but no self respecting Ind
J. vidual. no self respecting nation. chi
or ought 10 submit TO wrOrg.
: Final:y. even more Important thai
obiIlfy 70 work. even more impoFtan
than ahaIIty 70 dghf &t nead 8 II q
remeubee tAat tha ehief of hlaeGinG
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