The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-04-23
PARIS SPEECH
OF ROOSEVELT
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lions so primitive there can be but a
primitive culture. At first only the
rudest schools can be established, for
no others would meet the needs of
the hard-driven, sinewy folk who
thrust forward the frontier in the
teeth of savage man and savage ma
ture; and many years elapse before
any of these schools can develop into
seats of higher learning and broader
culture.
PIONEER DAYS PASS.
The pioneer days pass; the stump
dotted clearings expand into vast
stretches of fertile farm land; the
stockaded clusters of log cabins
change into towns; the hunters Of
game, the fellers Of trees, the rude
frontier traders and tillers of the
soil, the men who wander all their
lives long through the wilderness as
the heralds and harbingers of an on
coming civilization, themselves van
ish before the civilization for which
they have prepared the way. The
children of their successors and sup
planters, and then their children and
children's children, change and devel-
op with extraordinary rapidly The
conditions accentuate vices and vir-
tues, energy and ruthlessness, all the
good qualities and all the defects of
an intense individualism, self-reliant,
self-centered, far more conscious of
it's rights than of it's duties, and blind
to it's own shortcomings. To the hard
materialism of the frontier days sue.
ceeds the hard materialism of an in.
dustrialism even more intense and
absorbing than that of the older ma.
tons; although these themselves
have likewise entered on the age OF
a complex and dominantly industrial
civilization.
AS the country grows, its people
who have won success in so many
lines, turn back to try to recover the
possessions of the mind and the spir,
it, which perforce their fathers threw
aside in order better to wage the first
rough battles for the continent their
children inherit. The leaders OF
thought and of action grope their way
forward to a new life realizing some
times dimly, sometimes clear-sighted
ly, that the life of material gain, whe
Their for nation or an individual, is
of value only as a foundation, only as
there is added to it the uplift that
comes from devotion to loftier ideals
The new life thus sought can in part
be developed afresh from what is
round about in the New World; but
it can be developed in full only BY
freely drawing upon the treasure
houses of the old world, upon the
treasures stored in the ancient abodes
of wisdom and learning, such as this
where l speak today. 1t is a mistake
for any nation merely to copy an
other; but it is an even greater mis-
take, it is proof of weakness in any
nation, not to be anxious to learn
from another, and willing and able
to adapt that learning to the new ma
tional conditions and make it fruitful
and productive therein. 1t is for us
of the new world to sit at the feet
of the Gamaliel of the old; then. il
we have the right stuff in us, we car
show that Paul in his turn can become
teacher as well as a scholar.
THE INDIVIDUAL CITIZEN.
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
zens of great democratic republics. A
democratic republic such as each OF
ours-an effort to realize in it's full,
sense government by, of, and for the
people-represents the most gigantic
OF all possible social experiments. the