The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-30

| large. il is necessary, first, to be
bone of your bone and blood OF your blood,
with your own countrymen. able 10 DO
| your duty to the fullest extent in dealing
| with the problems your fellow country
| men have to solve
Need for Real Men.
''It is important this university should
| II should turn out men able TO do. 10
| the fullest extent. what Is required OF
| them by the complex needs OF American n
| citizenship: and remember always that
| your power TO show respect TO others VIII
depend largely on your own self-respect
In the days when America mlstruste,a
Itself, America felt bound to assert llseit
rather loudly in the face OF foreign ma
| tons.
The greater Americas confidence
comes strong and able to hold her own
| In the face OF any nation OF the earth,
the more ready America VIII becoms 70
| treat each and every nation In spirit OF
| the fullest cordially and friendship: ana
| the less apt she Will be 70 take offense'
not merely needlessly, but to take OF.
| fensc when there is some small need. pul
not enough to warrant losing ones tenn
Tho admission OF inferority in the
| face of another power is often rendered
as evident by overquickness cndeScw 10 feScY' "a a
bow down 10 the other power and Amor :
ca has reached the positi0n S,he %here rorre Sne
need snow neither one nor tnc Olllel lpl III
OF admission OF inferiorty.
Americas Reputation.
"One more word and then am through:
was struck by two things everywhere l
travelled abroad. One was that the name
America stood as "a golden sSni sla symS0 Sownl ol
trodden, that through no fault or their
own they had failed 10 receive the JusIlce
to which they We're entitled In lite. Inc
name America stood as a symbol OF as
plration Of the possibility of realizing
ideals according TO which every man, rich
or poor. should be treated on his worth
as man and should be given an oppor.
| unity to show that worth and to be
| Judged as he succeeds in showing IL
THAT on one side. On the other |
found everywhere certain disheartened
sense that we had not come up TO our
ideals as there was ground for believing
that we ought to have come; that we had
not achieved them as we ought. Every
instance Of corruption, demagosy, OF the
unjust abuse OF wealth, the unjust use OF
wealth TO the detriment OF the public and
| the improper acceptance by the pubic
| that mere wealth in and OF Itself. constl-
tuted a claim in regard to the comnun-
| ity; every instance of brutal materialtsn
on our part; every time that il was made
evident that the attitude of our country
| tude of q democracy founded on the prin-
! ciples upon which ours was founded
every single instance serving 10 dim the
| ideal that the name America conjured
|
every such instance served as an excuse
| for those who with a snecr bid mankind
| halt where II is. because the ideals that
are set before us are the ideals of dream
| ers only.
The Unspoken Appeal.
Now, you Harvard men here, you men
| OF America. II you won't see that your
house is put in order for your own sake
| I suppose II would be useless to ask you
| TO put 4, in order for the sake of other
| men; and yet / cannot imagine more
stirring appeal being made TO any people
| than this wel-nigh voiceless appeal from
| those who in other lands have not had
| the treatment TO which they are in JUS
tice entitled. who appeal TO us to manage
our republic according TO the highest
standards of morality and decency. SC
| that they can keep mistaken their faith
| in n realiZable ideal"
In addressing Governor Hughes, Colonel
| Roosevelt received a round OF applause
| and cheers when he said:
]. "Our governor has a very persua sive