The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-06-10
ANOTHER CHARACTERISTIC
ROOSEVELT TALK YESTERDAY
The Cx-President Is Given Degree by Oxford
and Delivers FOrCefuI Address.

doing the international duty Of a great
power. But there are certain p4Sblems
which both Of us have to solve, and
as to which our standards should be
the same.
"No hard and fast rule can be drawn
as applying 10 all alien races, because
they differ from one another far more
widely than some of them differ from
us. But there are one or two rules
which must not be forgotten. In the
long run, there can be no justification
for one race managing or controlling
another unless the management and
control are exercised in the interest and
for the benefit of that other race. This
is what our peoples have in the main
done, and must continue in Hhe future
in even greater degree to do, in In.
dia, Egypt, and the Philippines alike.
In the next place, as regards every
race, everywhere, at home or abroad,
we can not afford to deviate from thel
great rule of righteousness which bids
us treat each man on his worth as al
man. He must not be sentimentallyI
favored because he belongs to a given
race; he must not be given immunity
in wrong doing, or permitted to cumber
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which would be denied to the vicious
and unfit among ourselves. On the
other hand, where he acts in a way
which would entitle him to respect and
reward if he were of our own stock,
he is just as much entitled to that re-
speet and reward if he comes Of an
other stock, even though that other
stock produces a much smaller proper.
ton of men of his type than does our
own. This has nothing to 10 with So
cial intermingling, with what is called
social equality. 1t has to do merely
with the question of doing to each man
and each woman that elementary JUS
tiee which will permit him or her to
gain from life the reward which should
always accompany thrift, sobriety, self
control, respect for the rights of 9TH
ers, and hard and intelligent work to
a given end. To more than such just
treatment no man is entitled, and less
than such just treatment no man
should receive.
"The other type of duty is the in
ternational duty, the duty owed by
one nation to another. hold that the
laws of morality which should govern
individuals in their dealings one with
the other are just as binding concern
ing nations in their dealings one with
the other.
"The foreign policy of great and
self-respecting country should be con-
Quoted on exactly the same plane of
ihonor, of insistence upon ones own
rights and of respect for the rights of
others, as when brave and honorable
, man is dealing with his fellows. Per
I nit me to support this statement out
of my own experience. For nearly eight
|, years was the head of a great nation
/ and charged especially with the conduct
{ of its foreign policy; and during those
years 1 took no action with reference
to any other people on the face of the
3 earth that l would not have felt JUST
3 fed in taking as an individual in deal
3 ing with other individuals.
3 II believe that we of the great civil
/. lized nations of today have a right tC
3 feel that long careers of achievement
J.. lie before our several countries. Tt
I each of us is vouchsafed the honorable
privilege of doing his part, however
small in that work. Let us strive
hardly for success even if by so doin(
9 we risk failure, spurning the poorer
0 souls of small endeavor who know
n neither failure nor success. Let III
t hope that our own blood shall continue
d in the land, that our children and chill
t dren IS children to endless generation
t shall arise to take our places and play
$ mighty and dominant part in tn,
world But whether this be denied o.
j granted by the years we shall not see
:, let at least the satisfaction be our
t that we have carried onward the light
J, ed torch in our own day and genera
ton. If we do this, then, as our eye
close, and we go out into the darkness
and other hands grasp the torch, a
5 least we can say that our part ha
e been borne well and valiantly.'