The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-03-31
The University of Egypt confers the
Honorary Degree Of Doctor
of Laws on EXPIRES
ident.

Despite the fact that many of the
faculty and students of the university
are in sympathy with the nationalist
movement, there vas so much in
Roosevelt's address that appealed to
enlightened Egyptians of whatever
political party, that the speech made
a great hit and brought out applause
during its delivery and the warmest
congratulations after he had finished.
Mr.. Roosevelt announced after his
address that the honorary degree of
doctor of laws had been conferred
upon him by the University of Egypt.
MI. Roosevelt regretted that the uni
versity laws made his address an
invitational affair, thereby turning it
into a social function, with compare
lively few of the student body in at
tendance. He hoped to address the
students and for this reason had in
eluded the vigorous defense of law
and the condemnation of the recent as
~sassination.
Mr.. Roosevelt said, in part:
Training Is Necessary.
mo mar may reach the front rank
who is not intelligent and not trained
with intelligence. Mere intelligence it.
self is worse than useless, unless it is
guided by an upright heart, with
strength and courage behind it. Nor
atty, decency, clean living, courage,
manliness and self-respect are more
important than mental subtlety.
San honest o011ro oao,,s opd fon
sighted politician is a good thing in
any country, where his usefulness de-
Ponds chiefly or his ability to express
the wishes of the population in which
the politician forms only a fragment
of the leadership, and where the bust
ness man, the landowner, the engi-
neer, the man of technical knowledge
men Of a hundred different pursuits
represent the average type of lead.
ership.
mo people have permanently
amounted to anything whose only pub
lie leaders were clerks, politicians and
lawyers. Remember always that the
securing of a substantial education,
whether by a group of individuals or
a people, is attained only by
as a unit. You can no more make a
man really educated by giving him a
certain curriculum of studies than you
can make a people fit for self-govern-
ment by giving them a paper consti-
tuition.
"The training of an individual in
order to fit him to do good work in the
world, is a matter of years; and the
training of a nation to fit it success
fully to fulfill the duties of self-gov-
eminent is not a matter of a decade or
two, but of generations.
Some foolish persons believe that
the granting of a paper constitution,
perfected by some h~igh-sounding dec
larations, in itself confers the power
of self-government. This was never
SO. Nobody can give a people self
government, any more than it is DOS
sible to give an individual self-help.
You know the old Arab proverb. God
helps those who help themselves In.
the long run the only permanent way
for the individual to be helped is to
to help himself.
Man is slow in the growth of cha.
acter. The final determining factor in
the problem with a. people-any peo-
pie possessed of the essential qualities
lis to show no haste in grasping DOW
er. which it is only too easy to misuse.
The slow, steady and %resolute develop
ment of those substantial qualities
love, justice, fair play, the spirit Of:
self-reliance and moderation-alone
will enable a people to govern them
selves.
All good, all men of every nation
whose respect is worth having, were;
lnexpressibly shocked by the assassin
alton OF Boutres Pasha Ghali. It was;
q greater calamity to Egypt than al
wrong to. the individual himself. The
type OF man that turns assassin Is the
type possessing all the qualities which
ALLEVIATE him from good citizenship:
the type producing poor soldiers m:
time Of war, and worse citizens in time
Of peace. Such a man stands on the,
pinnacle of evil and infamy. Those
a%pelcgizing for or %condoning his act.
by word or deed, directly or Indirectly;
encouraging such an act in advance or
defending 1t afterward, occupy the,
same bad eminence.
1T is of no consequence whom the
assassin is--Moslem or Christian-or
with what creed, or whether the crime,
was committed in political strife or.
Industrial warfare. The rich mans,
hired act, performed by a poor man,
whether committed with the pretense'
Of preserving order or of obtaining lib.
erty, is equally abhorrent in the eyes
Of all decent men, and in the long run
equally damaging to every cause thd,
J essassA may profess.