The Forrest City times., 1910-04-29
DUTIES OF CITIZEN
Colonel Roosevelt Lectures on
 This Subject in Paris.
BIG AUDIENCE iN SGRBONNE
,avants. Professors and Students
 Hear the Ex-President's Views on
 the Responsibilities of the Individ- uaI-Hits at Race Suicide in France.

the ReSE6nSlbllttleS or the lndtVId-
 uaI-Aits at Race Suicide in France. Paris. aPrf 29.-Savants, professors and students of the University of Paris crowded the assembly hall of the habdnae his afternoon 10 hear Col Theodore Roosevelt lecture on "Giti- zensHp .n Republic" It vas an ap- pra.iatiye audience and the lecturer va Hreguentiy applauded Mr Roosevelt said
 Foundations Of Our Republic.
 This was the most famous HHirer- citF of medieval Eurepe at a time When no enc dreamed that there was le2 world 10 discover. Us services to AIe cause of human knowledge al reaEg stretched far back into the remote past at the time when my fore fathers. three centuries ago, when among the sparse bands of traders. plonmen wood choppers and fisher. folk who, in hard struggle with the iron anfrieudIiness of the Indian haunted land, were laying the founda. tions et what has now become the giant republic of the west. To con quer continent. to tame the shaggy roughness of wild nature means grim warfare; and the generations engaged in 1t cannot keep. still less add to. the stores of garnered wisdom which were therein. and which are still in the hands of their bre'4lren who dwell Tn the old land To conquer the wilderness means to wrest victory from the same hostile forces with which mankind struggled in the im- memorial infancy of our race. The prlmeVal conditions must be met by primeYal qualities which are incom- pauble with the retention of much that has been painfully acquired by humanity as through the ages it has striyen upward toward civilization. In conditions so primitive there can be but primitive culture.
 Building the Higher Life
 As the country grows. its people. who have won success in so many lines. turn back 10 try to recover the DOS. sessions of the mind and the spirit,
 
 aside in order better to wager the first rough battles for the continent their children inherit. The leaders of thought and of action grope their way forward to pew life. realizing. some times dimly. sometimes clear-sighted- ly, that the life of material gain. whether for nation or an individual. Of value only as a foundation. only as there Is added to il the uplift that comes from devotion 10 loftier ideals The new Hte thus sought can in part De developed afresh from what is round about in the new world but can be developed In full only by Freely drawing upon the treasure houses of the old world upon the uea9aIes stored in the ancient abodes oi wisdom and learning such as this where l speak today
 | Is mistake for any nation merely 10 copy another: but it is an even greater mistake, 1t Is a proof of weak. ness In any nation. not to be anxious to learn from another, and willing and apie 10 adapt that learning 10 the new national conditions and make it fruit iul ana productive therein. It is for us oi the new world to sit at the feet oi the Gamaliel of the old then If we nave the right stun in us. we can show '"dt Paul, in his turn can become a teacher as we'll as a scholar.
 oday, 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. "sHeh, because you and We are citi- 1eHs oi great democratic republics A ee"ioefatic republic such as each of ouis-an effort to realize in its full seise government by. of, and for the psot.e represents the most gigantic VI all possible social experiments. the oii' Iraught with greatest possibilities eahe Ter good and for evil
 Great Lesson of France.
 rance has taught many lessons to o'ner nations. surely one of the most important is the lesson her whole his ,o'Y teaches. that high artistic and -',e. dT} development is compatible "''H notable leadership in arms and craft The brilliant gallantry Of ,He French soldier has for many cen. .p'teS been proverbial. and during 1nese same centuries at every court in 'ope the free masons of fashion n"'R treated the French tongue as 4e" common speech; while every art. s' and man of letters. and every man
 eeiehce able to appreciate that mar S'oaS instrument of precision French ptose' has turned towards France for ,u anu Inspiration. How long the lead suip In arms and letters has lasted - eafiously Illustrated by the fact that earliest masterpiece in modern .onsue Is the splendid French epic 1icn tells of Hollands doom and the