The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-04-23
Must Have Upper Hand When in
Conflict With Property Rights
Says Roosevelt.
COL. TALKS ON CITIZENSHIP
Appears Before Distinguished Audi
ence in Paris and is Well Received
-Dwells on Citizenship in
Republics.

delivered his eagerly awaited lecture
on citizenship in the Republic" I'm the
Sorbonne this afternoon. The audi
ence was composed of all members of
the French cabinet, students of the
University of Paris, and many distin-
guished guests by whom the occasion
was regarded as the most important
feature of the Americans visit to
France.
Roosevelt spent the day in the Latin
quarter across the Seine, which, for
centuries has been one of the intellect
nal centers of the world. At ] o'clock
this afternoon in his capacity as for
eign member of the French Institute
he attended a regular session of the
academy of moral and political sci
ences At o'clock he delivered his
lecture in the Grand Amphitheater of
the Sorbonne and was most cordially
received. According to traditional GUS
tom the academy of moral and political
sciences Roosevelt entered without for
nal presentation.
Emil Boutroux, who presided ad-
of his observations during his recent
visit to the United States regarding
the growth of education there. He
took Roosevelt's ideal as the highest
type of man which American educa-
ton sought to produce, quoting fire.
quently Roosevet's own words in the
exposition of his theme.
In the course OF his address Roose-
Welt made reference to the subject of
human rights and property rights.
my position as regards monied in
terests can be put in a few words" he
said. "In every civilized society prop
erty rights must be carefully safe
guarded. Ordinarily and in great
majority of cases human rights and
property rights are fundamentally and
in the long run identical. but when IL
clearly appears there is real conflict
between them, human rights must
have the upper hand; for property be-
longs to men and not the man to the
property"
In the lecture Col. Roosevelt spoke
on individual citizenship in the reprb-
lies Of France and the United States
In part he said:
with you here and with us in my
own home. in the long run, success or
failure will be conditioned upon the
way in which the average man, the
average woman. does his or her duty
first i'm the ordinary, every day af-
fairs Of life and next i'm these great
occasional crisis which call for the
heroic virtues. The average citizen
must be a good citizen If our republics
are to succeed. The stream will not
permanently rise higher than the main
source: and the main source of ma
tional power and national greatness
is found in the average citizenship OF
the nation. Therefore IL behooves US
to do our best to see that the stand
ard OF the average cit'7en is kept
high; and the average ca Ut be KEEP
high unless the standard the lead
ers is OF very much highe'.
at is well IL large proportion of
the leaders I'm any republic. i'm any
democracy, are, as a matter of course,
drawn from the classes represented
I'm this audience today; but only pro-
vided that those classes possess the
gifts of sympathy with plain people
and OF devotion to great ideals. You
ard those like you have received spe-
cial advantages; you have. all of you
had the opportunity for mental train
ing; many of you have had leisure;
most OF you have had n chance for
the enjoyment of life far greater
than comes to the majority of your
fellows. To you and your kind much
has been given, and from you much
should be expected.
1T is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how the
strong man stumbles, or where the
doer OF deeds COULD have done them
better. The credit belongs to the man
VINO Is actually in the arena, whose
iace Is marred by dust ard sweat and
blood; who strives valiantly who
errs and comes short again and again
because there is no effort without err
ror and shortcomings but who does
actually strive to do the deeds: who
NN SiNhN tnluuoldSfll, tilt BTtdt
uevotions; who spends himself in a
worthy cause; who at the best knows
IN the end the triumph of high
achievement, and who at the worst. II
ne falls, at least fails while daring
greatly so that his place shall never
pe with those cold and timid souls
VINO know neither victory nor defeat
shame on the man of cultivated taste
VINO permits refinement to develop In
iastidiousness that unfits him for
uoihg the rough work OF n workaday
world Among the free people who
govern themselves. there Is but a
small field OF usefulness open for the
men OF cloistered life who shrink
from contact with their fellows. still
less room Is there for those who de-
rae or slight what Il done by those
VINO actually bear the brunt of the