Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-28
ROOSEVELT TALKS
TO STUDENTS OF
CAIRO UNIVERSITY
Egyptians Believe His Address
Will Have Good Effect
on Country.

CAlRO, E2ypt, Marcn ze.-COlonel
Roosevelt delivered an address before
the students OF the University of Egypt
today and made an excellent impress
sion. He was cordially received. and
at the conclusion of his remarks there
vas much applause. The general
opinion is that the speech will have a
good effect upon the country generally.
Mr.. Roosevelt upon entering the hall
of the university found 1t crowded with
Egyptians. officers. students and
the moment be appeared. Prince
Ahmed Fouad, president of the uni
versity and an uncle of the Khediye,
introduced Mr.. Roosevelt with a brief
speech spoken in French.
Responding to the welcome, Mr..
Roosevelt expressed his thanks. but
said that his address was intended only
for the students of the university. AS
a man who spoke frequently, he warned
his auditors to have nothing to do with
the man who did not make good his
words by acts. The speakers reference
to the assassination by a student last
month OF Boutros Pasha Ghali, premier
and minister of foreign affairs, as a
calamity to Egypt and his denuncia-
tions of the assassin were received with
great applause.
RooseveIt's Address.
Colonel Roosevelt in part said:
N man may reach the front rank
who is not intelligent and not trained
with intelligence. Mere intelligence
| II self 10 f11on ...,1a.. - "a a..
guided by an upright heart, with
strength and courage behind it.
Morality, decency, clean living. cour-
age, manliness and self-respect are
more important than mental subtlety.
An honest, courageous and far-sighted
politician is a good thing in any coun-
try, where his usefulness depends
chiefly on his ability to express the
wishes of the population, in which the
politician forms only a fragment of the
leadership and where the business
the landowner, the engineer, the man
of technical knowledge-men of a un-
dred different pursuits-represent the
average type of leadership.
NO people have permanently
amounted to anything whose only pub
lie leaders we're clerks. politicians and
lawyers. Remember always that the
securing of a substantial education.
whether by a group of individuals or IA
people. is attained only by progress as
a unit. You can no more make a mar
really educated by giving him a cer-
tain curriculum of studies than you
can make a people fit for self govern
ment by giving them a paper constitu-
ton. The training of an individual, in
order to fit him to do good work In the
world. is a matter of years, and the
training of a nation to fit it success
fully to fulfill the duties of self-gov-
eminent is not a matter of a decade or
two. but of generations.
Some foolish persons believe that
the granting of a paper constitution,
prefaced by some high-sounding decla-
r~ations. in itself confers the power of
self-government. This was never so.
Nobody can give a people s~elf-goyern-
ment any more than it is possible to
give an individual self-help. You know
the old Arab proverb. God helps those
who help themselves In the long run
the only permanent way for the indi-
vidual to be helped Is to help himself.
This is one of the things Jul univer-
sity should inculcate.
DenOunc Assassin.
Man is slow in the growth of char
acter. The final determining factor In
the problem with a people-any people
possessed of essential qualities-is to
show no haste in grasping power,
which it is only too easy to misuse.
The slow, steady and resolute develop
ment of those substantial qualities
love, justice, fair play, the spirit of
self-reliance and moderation-alone
will enable a people to govern hem
selves. In the long, tedious and abso-
lutely essential process | believe your
university takes an important part. Do
moi forget the old Arab proverb, God
is with the patient, il they know how
to wait This spirit condemns every
lawless act. evil. envy and hatred, and,
| above all, hatred based on religion or
race.
All good men. all men of every
nation whose respect is worth having,
were inexpressibly shocked by the as
| sassination of Boutros Pacha Ghali. 1t
| was a greater calamity to Egypt than
a wrong to the indiyidul himself. The
type of man hat turns assassin is the
type possessing all the qualities which
ALLEVIATE him from good citizenship; the
type producing poor soldiers in time
+! of war and worse citizens in time of
peace. Such a man stands on the pin
nacle of evil and infamy. Those
apologizing for or %condoning his act
by word or deed. directly or indirectly,
encouraging such an act in advance or
defending it afterward. occup the
same bad eminence. 1t is of no conse-
quence whether the assassin is Moslem
OF Christian, or with no creed, or
whether the crime was committed in
| political strife or industrial warfare.
| The rich mans hired act, per-
formed by a poor man, whether COM
mitted with the p%retense of preserving
order or of obtaining liberty, is equally
abhorrent in the eyes of all decent
men, and in the long run equally
damaging to every cause the assassin
processes"