The Green Forest tribune., 1910-04-29
COL. ROOSEVELT
 SPEAKS IN PARIS
Addresses Distinguished Audience
 at Ancient University.
"CITIZENSHiP" HIS SUBJECT
Tells Students and Professors of Duty of France as Nation and Them. selves as Individuals to the World Reads Them Lecture on SteriIity.

selves as Individuals to the World
 Reads Them Lecture on SteriIity.
 Paris, April 23.-Ex-President Roose- welt today lectured before an audience at the Sorbonne, that comprised the greatest gathering of the intellect and learning of France that has gathered at this ancient educational seat in more than a century, if ever before. Long before the time announced for the beginning of Colonel Roosevelts lecture every seat in the great audi torium was filled, and thousands lined the walks and streets about the uni versity. Colonel Roosevelt said:
 Foundations of Our Republic.
 This was the most famous univer- sity of mediaeval Europe at a time when no one dreamed that there was new world to discover. Its services to the cause of human knowledge al ready stretched far back in to the remote past at the time when my fore fathers, three centuries ago, were among the sparse bands of traders, plowmen, wood choppers. and fisher folk who in a hard struggle with the iron unfriendliness of the Indian haunted land, were laying the founda- tions of 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 it cannot keep, still less add to, the stores of garnered wisdom which were therein, and which are still in the hands of their brethren who dwell in the old land To conquer the wilderness means to wrest victory from the same hostile forces with which mankind struggled in the i'm memorial infancy of our race. The primeval conditions must be met by primeval qualities which are incom- patible with the retention of much that has been painfully acquired by humanity as through the ages it has striven upward toward civilization. In conditions so primitive there can be but primitive culture.
 Building the Higher Life.
 AS the country grows, It's people, who have won success in so many lines, turn back to try to recover the pos sessions of the mind and the spirit, 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, whether for nation or an individual, is of value only as 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
 It is mistake for any nation merely to copy another; but it is an even greater mistake, it is a proof of weak ness in any nation, not to be anxious to learn from another, and willing and able to adapt that learning to the new national conditions and make it fruit ful and productive therein. It is for us of the new world to sit at the feet of the Gamaliel of the old; then if we have the right stuff in us, we can show that Paul, in his turn, can become teacher as well as a scholar.
 Today, 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 its full sense government by, of, and for the people-represents the most gigantic of all possible social experiments, the one fraught with greatest possibilities alike for good and for evil
 Great Lessons of France.
 France has taught many lessons to other nations; surely one of the most important is the lesson her whole his- tory teaches, that high artistic and literary development is compatible with notable leadership in arms and statecraft. The brilliant gallantry of the French soldier has for many cen turies been proverbial, and during these same centuries at every court in Europe the free masons of fashion" have treated the French tongue as their common speech; while every art ist and man of letters, and every man of science able to appreciate that mar vicious instrument of precision, French prose, has turned towards France for aid and inspiration. How long the lead ership in arms and letters has lasted is curiously illustrated by the fact that the earliest masterpiece in modern tongue is the splendid French epic which tells of Hollands doom and the vengeance of Charlemagne when the lords of the Frankish host were stricken at Roncesvalles.
 Need of Individual Character.
 Let those who have. keep, let those who have not, strive to attain high standard of cultivation and scholar ship. Yet let us remember that these