The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-06-30


ate the honor. IL was the keenest pleas
ure to me TO visit those universities. I
admire them with all my heart
Home Education Best.
And now, having said that, you will
not misunderstood me when / say that
/ came back feeling more truly than
ever that the place for man TO be ed
ucated Is his own home. Let him be
sent to school and university here in
the United states. II he has a chance
where, according as his tastes and
needs dictate, good; but let him have
the foundations laid here. where his
citizenship must be exercised.
Let me also point out that you can
not be useful abroad unless you have
abroad the respect that only comes II
your usefulness has been proved at
home. No man ought to receive OF will
receive respect abroad unless, as an
American, he has won his spurs in
American life.
Not ChauvanIstic.
Il trust I need not say / speak in no
spirit of mere chauvanism. on the con-
trary, ] speak, as / have said, from the
standpoint or one who sincerely ad-
mires other nations, who has a sense
OF grateful appreciation Of what they
have done for him. but who is more
than ever convinced to be useful to the
world at large, II Is necessary, first, to
be bone Of your bone and blood of your
blood, a citizen OF your own country.
feeling, with your own COuntrymen.
able to DO your duty to the fullest ex-
tent in dealing with the problems your
fellow cOuntrymen have to solve.
1t is important this university should
turn out scholars. il is more important
that IL should turn out men able to do.
to the fullest extent. what is required
Of them by the complex needs OF Amer
ican citizenship; and remember always
that your power 20 show respect 70
others will depend largely on your
~ 90 II .Hru NaanH
America mistrusted itself. America felt
bound to assert itself rather loudly in
the face Of foreign nations
The greater Americas confidence
grows in itself. the more America be-
comes strong and able to hold her
own I'm the face or any nation of the
earth, the more ready America will
become to treat each and every nation
in a spirit OF the fullest cOrdiality and
friendship, and the less apt she will
be 10 take offense, not merely needless
". but TO take offense when there is
some small need. but not enough to
warrant losing ones temper
Admissions of Inferiority.
The admission OF inferiority in the
face OF another power IS often rendered
as evident by OverQuickness to resent
a fancied slight as 20 is by tendency
to bow down 20 the other power, and
America has reached the position when
she need show neither one nor the 9TH
er form Of admission OF inferiority.
zone more word. and then I am
through I was struck by two things
everywhere travelled abroad. One was
that the name America stood as a
golden CymbOl or hope for all who felt
they were downtrOdden. that through
no fault OF their own they had failed
to receive the Justice to which they
were entitled In life. The name Amer
lea stood as a symbol OF aspiration.
OF the possibility OF realizing ideals &C
Cording TO which every man. rich or
poor. should be treated on his worth as
a man and should be given an oppor-
judged as he succeeds I'm showing It.
Too Much Expected.
THAT on one side. on the other side,
I found everywhere a certain disheart-
ened sense that we had not come up
TO our ideals. as there was ground for
believing that we ought to have come:
that we had not achieved them as we
ought Every instance OF corruption.
demaROEy. OF the unjust abuse Of
wealth. the unjust use Of wealth to
the detriment OF the public and the i'm
proper acceptance by the public that
mere wealth In and OF itself constituted
claim 20 regard I'm the community;
every instance or brutal materialism
on our part: every time that Il was
made evident that the attitude OF our
country was such as ought not TO be
the attitude or democracy founded
on the principles upon which ours was
founded: every single instance serving
to dim the ideal that the name Amer
lea conjured up in the minds Of those
In foreign lands-evory such instance
served as an excuse for those who with
sheer bid mankind halt where Il Is.
because the ideals that set before us
are the ideals OF dreamers only.
Vow, You Harvard men here, YOU
men OF America, n you won't see that