The Prescott daily news., 1910-06-07
ROOSEVELT GIVES
 ROMANES LECTURE
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I believe that in national life as the ages go by we shall find that the permanent national types will more and more tend towards those in which, while the intel lect stands high. character stands higher; in which rugged strength and courage, rugged capacity to resist wrongful az gression by others. will go hand in hand with lofty scorn of doing wrong to oth- CTS. This is the type of Timoleon. of Hampden. of Washington and Lincoln. These were as good men, as dsinterested and unselfsh men, ever served a state and they were also as strong men as ever founded or saved a state. Surely such examples prove that there Is noth- ing Utopian in oEr effort to combine justice and strength in the same nation. The really high civilizations must them selves supply the antidote to the self-in- dulgence and love of ease which they tend to produce.
 Problems of Modern Nations.
 Every modern civilized nation has many and terrible problems to solve within its own borders, problems that arise not merely from juXtaposition of poverty and riches but especially from the self-con- sciousness of both poverty and riches. Each nation must deal with these mat tors in it's own fashion. and yet the spirit in which the problem is approached must ever be fundamentally the same. It must be a spirit of broad humanity; of brotherlY kindness; of acceptance of re- sponsibiity, one for each and each for all, and at the same time d spirit as re- mote as the poles from every form of weakness and sentimentality As In war 10 pardon the coward is to do cruel wrong to the brave man whose life his cowardice jeopardizes, so in civil affairs 1t is revoltng to every principle of justice to give to the lazy, the vicious or even the feeble and dull-witted, a reward which is really the robbery of what hraver, wiser. abler men have earned The only effective way to help any man is to help him 10 help himself: and the worst lesson to teach him Is plat he can be permanently helped at the expense of some one else. True liberty shows itself to best advantage in protecting the rights of others. and especially of minorities Privilege should not be tolerated because it is to the advantage of a minority. nor vet because it is to the advantage of a majority No doctrinaire theories of vested rights or freedom of contract can stand in the way of our cutting out abuses from the body polite Just a lit- tie can we afford to follow the doctrin- aires of an impOss ble-And incidentally of a highly undesira ble-social revolution which. in destroying individual rights including property rghts) and the fam fly would destroy the two chief agents in the advance of mankind and the two chief reasons why either the advance or the preservation of mankind is worth while It is an evil and a dreadful thing to be CallOus to sorrow and suffering and blind to our duty to do all things possible for the betterment of social conditions But it Is an unspeakably foolish thing to strive for this betterment by means so destructive that they would leave no so- cial conditions to better. In dealing with all these social problems with the inti- r,,sata t-a1sl fgNr, cF ( in private use and business use. with la bor with poverty. the one prime neces- sty ts to remember that, though hard ness of heart Is a great evil, 1t is no greater an evil than softness of head.
 But in addition to these problems the most intimate and important of all which to larger or less degree affect all the modern nations somewhat alike, ws of the great nations that have expanded. that are now in complicated relations with one another and with alien races, have special problems and special duties of our own. You belong to nation which pos sesses the greatest empire upon which the sun has ever shone. l belong to nation which Is trying, on scale hitherto unex- amped, to work out the problems of gov- ernment for, of, and by the people. whils at the same time doing the international duty of a great power But there are certain problems which both of us have 10 solve and as to which our standards should b. the same. The Englishman, the man of the British isles. in his various homes across the seas, and the Ameri- can, both al home and abroad, are brought into contact with utterly alien peoples. some with a civilization more an- Clent than our own, others still in, or having but recently arisen from, the bar barlsm which our people left behind ages ago. The problems that arise are of we'll nigh tnconceiVabe difficulty. T, ay cannot be solved by the foolish scntimentalty of stay-at-home people. with little patent recipes, and those cut-and- dried theories Of the political nursery which have such limited applicability amid the crash of elemental forces. Neither can they bs solved by the raw brutality of the men who, whether at home or on the rough frontier of civilization, adopt might as the only standard of right in dealing with other men, and treat alien races only as subjects for exploitation.
 No hard and fast rule can be drawn as appiylng to all alien races, because they differ from one another far more wide " than some of them differ from us. But there are one or two rules which must not be forgotten. Tn the long run there can be no justification for one race man. aging or controlling another unless the management and control are exercised in the interest and for the benefit of that other race This is what our peoples have in the main done, and must con- ,tinue In the future in even greater de- gree to do in India. Egypt, and the Phil- ippines alike. In the next place. as re- gards every race, everywhere, at home or abroad, we cannot afford to deviate from the great rule of righteousness which bids us treat each man on his worth as man. He must not be senti- mentally favored because he belongs to given race; he must not be given i'm munity in wrong-doing, or permitted to cumber the ground or given other privi- leges which would be denied to the