Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-01
ROOSEVELT HARVARD HOST
Prssides as President Of Alumni
Association at Commencement.
LUsTY CHEERS GREET COLONEL
Tells Graduates that Youths shsuId
Receive Training at Home
Iastead of seekfnE Leara-
tnE Abroad.

CAMBRIDGE. Mass. June 9e.-Gusst and /
host In one. Theodore Roosevelt brought .
energy and animation to commencement .
Z "Wednesday al Harvard university Three 4
cheers that marked his passage 70 and from I
an1ong the Buildings Of the ancient yard 4
indicated his position as chief guest Of the /
day. while his presence at the head Of the 4
table at the commencement luncheon IN 4
/ Memorial han was the taken that he vas
host BY virtue Of his office and president
] Of the Harvard Alumni ASSOCIATION
! II vas Roosevelt Of the Class Of 1887
today. and he had a busy time shaking I
hands with Old college friends Colonel
Roosevelt tonight went TO Nahaut to spend
the night a. guest Of senator Lodge
Addresses Alumni.
In opening the alumni meeting Colonel
l Roosevelt said. in part. after expressing
4 his thanks for the honor conferred in
! making him president Of the association:
/ In the first place I come here with an
4 increased and hearty friendship and good
( VII for other countries. / have visited
many nations and the more 1 see OF decent
/ people OF other nationalities. the more /
( realize the truth Of Abraham Lincoln's
statement that there is a deal q human
nature in mankind A good man is a good
! man anywhere. and a scoundrel ought TO
I scoundrelism. whatever his birthplace or
his nationality. And yet with that feeling
there has come a constantly increasing IN
/ derstsnding on my part Of the fact that the
man who wishes 70 be good citizen Of
the world must first and foremost be a
good citizen Of his own nation
Let him be sent 10 school and TO q uni
versity in the United States. If he has a
chance TO take post graduate course else
where according 10 his tastes and need
dictate. good. but let him nave the fouu-
dations laid here. where his citizenship
must be exercised
Let me also point cut the fact that
you cannot be useful abroad unless you
have abroad the respect that only comes
Of your usefulness as it has been proved
at home No man ought 20 receive or viii
receive respect abroad unless as an Ameri-
can. be has won his spurs in American life
at home I trust I need not say 1 speak
In no spirit Of mere chauvinism. On the
contrary speak. as I have said. from the
! standpoint Of one VINO sincerely adrnires
other nations. who adunires them now even
more. who has sense Of grateful sppre-
! citation Of what they have done for him.
but as a man who is more than ever con-
WINGED that to be useful 70 the world. thai
il is first necessary to be bone Of your bona
2 q
] own country, feeling with your own couu-
! trymen, able to DO your duty to the fun
> est extent in dealing with the problems
that your fellow countrymen have to solve
b call of Citi1en.nfp.
1T Is important that this university
should turn out scholars 1t is more i'm
portant that it should turn out men able
TO do to the fullest extent what is re-
If ham Nv rha
American citizenship, and remember. al
, ways. that your power 10 show respect to
others viii depend largely On your own
self respect In the days when America
mistrusted itself America felt bound rather
I loudly 10 assert itself in the face of for
eign nations.
The greater Americas confidence grows
in itself the more America becomes strong
and able to hold its own in the face Of any
, nation Of the earth, the more ready Amer
:, lea viii become TO treat each and every
Il other nation in a spirit Of the fullest cor
!. diality and friendship and the less apt il
: viii be to take offense not merely need
= lessly. but 10 take offense when there Is
) some small need, but not enough to war
: rant losing ones temper.
!, One more word and then an through
>. was struck by two things everywhere
that I Travelled abroad One was thar The
; name America stood as a golden symbol
. of hope for all who felt that they wer,
: downtrodden, that through no fault of thei,
own they had failed TO receive the justice
. TO which they were entitled in life
+ America and Aspiration.
Y The name America stood as a symbol
: Of aspiration. Of the possibility Of reaIzina
: ideals according to which each man, rict
: or poor. should be treated on his worth AZ
!. a man and should be given an opportunity
r to show that worth and to be judged a.
a he succeeded in showing IL
d That on one side. on the other sid.
Of I found everywhers l certain dishearteneJ
h sense that we had not come Up 10 on,
II ideals as there vas ground for beIievins
d that we ought 20 have; that We had 10
Is achieved them we ought and every in
q stance Of corruption. OF eemagogy, OF In,
Is unjust abuse OF wealth. the unjust use o.
to wealth 10 the detrfment OF The public OF
* the improper acceptance by the public TIA.
mere wealth IN and Of itself constituted ,
r claim IN regard l. the community ever,
d instance Of brutal matsrialism On our part
a every time that IL was made evident ina.
ie the attitude OF this country was such a
= ought not TO be the attitude Of a demo
\ crazy founded on the principles on which
n ours was founded-evsry such instanc,
a served 10 dim the ideal that N,
ID name America eon5ured up in the minds
81 OF those foreign lands every such instanci
Sc served as an excuse for those who Wit
g a sheer bid mankind halt where it is be
y cause the Ideals that they have set befor,
Us are the ideals Of dreaners only
q Now, you Harvard men here, you mel
In Of America. IL you won't see that you
Is house is put IN order for your own sakes
suppose il would be useless 70 ask 20,
e 70 put il IN order for the sake OF othe
r. men. and yet I cannot imagine a NOR
5. stirring appeal being made 10 any PEG
In PIE than TINS wen-nigh vOiceless appea
~ from those who IN other lands have no
n had the treatment 70 which they are 4
e. justice entitled 10; VINO appeal % rs Z
DO manage our republic according 10 the high
at est standzrds OF morality and decency
At 50 that they can keep mistaken thei
faith in a reAiizable deal"
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