Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-25
The Press as a Rule Highly Praises |t.-.|nterest
0Vershadows Even Election Campaign. .Quiet
Sunday Follows Strenuous Saturday...A
Guest Today Of Paris Municipality.
A STRENUOUS SATURDAY.

| Paris. April 24.-To use Col. Roose-
velt's own words, Saturday marked the
Growing Of his career as a man of let
tiers.
| From noon until midnight, he was
| the guest of intellectual Paris. partic-
| ipating as member at a session of
the French Academy. delivering lee
tlre at the SorbCnne and remaining as
Tho guest of the faculty for dinner and
the grand reception given by the uni
vcIsity in his honor.
| Col. Roosevelt's reception at the
! French Institute and that at the Scr
honne were equally impressive. but in
! a different way. At the former he was
| introduced merely as member. and he
| took a seat among his distinguished
confreres, most of whom have grown
| Old in the service of science.
| After listening to the words of M
| Routrcux. president of the Academy of
| Moral and Political Sciences, who
spoke elouuently of American ideals
ard character. of which, he said,
Theodore Roosevelt was the best ex-
ponent. the ex-President of the United
| States renfied in French. his utter
ances arousing his venerable col
| At the Sorbonne no attempt was
| made to restrain the demonstrations.
| The facade bristled with American and
| French flags and fully $4,000 persons
| packed the streets and acclaimed Col.
Roosevelt on his arrival. Within the
building enthusiasm was unbounded,
| the vast crowd in the amphitheatre in
I terrupting again and again with
1 lyat RI
| fined the duties of individual citizen
| ship in a republic. scorning the slug
CARDS. cynics and idle rich. and preach
| ing the gospel of work, character and
| the strenuous life.
| Several times he interjected observa-
tons in French, and after he had defined
his attitude on the subject of human
rights and property rights. he repeated
/ this in French, saying that 1t constituted
the crux of what he had to say. and he
desired everyone to understand him.
| He made his auditors clearly realize
that he considered republican institutions
still on trial both in America and France.
| The distinguished personages occupying
seats on the estrada, who included be-
sides the deans of the various faculties
| of the universities, Premier BRAND and
| his entire cabinet and such men as Leon
| Bourgeois, ex-premier, Anatole Lerby-
| Beaulieu, director of the Institute of
France, Jules Poincare, Jules Clarete,
Gabriel Hanotaux, Marquis De Segur, the
historian. and Paul Deschanel, were evil
IDENTIFY quite as much impressed as the
students and other auditors in front,
| joining heartily in the applause. espe-
1 ci91lV whom Nr RnoceveIf smoke against
race suicide and the necessity for a ma
ton to perpetuate itself as one of its
principal duties.
After the lecture Vice Rector Lizard, on
behalf of the university. presented Mr..
| Roosevelt a bust of Jefferson and two
vases made at Sevres.
| A curious mistake had been made in
the bust. A bust of Lincoln had been
ordered from the government factory at
Sevres, but in some unaccountabe way
one of Jefferson was manufactured. M
IJusserand, the French ambassador, has
arranged to have the original order exc
lcuted
In replying to NJ, Boutreux before the
| Academy of Moral and Political Sciences,
Mr. Roosevelt spoke in French. He said
|
were not among confreres, for he was
certain of their indulgence.
Il cannot express how much / have
been touched by the honor you have
| paid me-" he said. 1T is the browning
of the career of man of letters"
NJ Boutreux. ne said, had defined his
| moral conception of life better than he
could himself and he continued:
| II have always tried to translate in
| to action the moral principles which
must inspire the life of men and ma
| tons. There can be no economic civil
/ ization without morality Genius is not
| essential. but only courage, honesty,
sincerity and common sense. Men Of
genius without these qualities are a
curse to nation. They do more harm
than good"
| Col. Roosevelt told how he received
the news of mis- election to the academy,
while hunting white rhinoceri at the
| equator.
Il was living among naked savages,"
| he said, hunting for an animal which
was the survivor of the long haired
| rhnoceros that existed here in France
! when France was inhabited by naked
| savage
Col. and Mrs. Roosevelt were enter
tanned at dinner Saturday evening by
Vice Rector Lizard. the guests also m
| GLIDING Ambassador and Mrs. Bacon.
Ambassador and Nine. Jusserand, Prem
Ter BRAND, M. Doumergue. minister Of
education, and the deans Of the facul-
] ties.