The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-06-10

OXFORD, England, June 7.-Colonel
Roosevelt today received an honorary
degree of Doctor of Civil Laws. The
former President of the United States
delivered lecture of which the fol
lowing are parts:
''Rome fell by attack from without,
only because the ills within her own
borders had grown incurable. What is
true of your country, my hearers, is
true of my own; while we should be
vigilant against foes from without, yet
we need never really fear them so long
as we safeguard ourselves against the
enemies within our own households;
and these enemies are our own passions
and follies. Free peoples can escape
being mastered by others only by being
able to master themselves. We Amer
leans, and you people of the British
Isles, alike, need ever to keep in mind
that, among the many qualities indis-
pensable to the success of great de-
mocracy, and second only to a high and
stern sense of duty, of moral obliga-
ton, are self-knowledge and self-mas-
terry. You, my hosts, and 1 may not
agree in all our views; some of you
would think me a very radical democrat
-as, for the matter of that, I am;
and my theory of Imperialism would
probably suit the anti-imperialists as
little as it would suit a certain type
of forcible feeble imperialist But there
are some points on which we must all
agree if we think soundly. The precise
form of government, democratic or
otherwise, is the instrument, the tool,
with which we work. It is important
to have a good tool. But, even if it is
the best possible, it is only tool. No
implement can ever take the place of
the guiding Intelligence that Yields it.
A very bad tool will ruin the work
of the best craftsman; but good tool
in bad hands is no better. In the last
: analysis the all-important factor in ma
, tional greatness is national character.
"There is much that should give us
concern for the future. The fears once
expressed by the followers of Nautilus
as to the future of the world have
proved groundless as regards the civil
: lied portion of the world; it is strange
. indeed to look back at Carlyle's pro
phecies of some seventy years ago, and
then think of the teeming life OF
| dCHleNtUleuI, inc Allt VI CODNutSJ VI
every kind, and of noble effort crowned
by success, which has been ours for the
two generations since he complained tC
high heaven that all the tales had beer
! told and all the songs sung, and that
i all the deeds really worth doing hai
been done. believe with all my hear
: that a great future remains for us; but
whether it does or does not, our duty j!
! ! not altered However the battle may
u go, the soldier worthy of the name viii
: with utmost vigor do his allotted task
y and bear himself as valiantly in defeat
as in victory. Come what will, we be
, long to peoples who have not yielded
/. to the craven fear of being great.
- "Mhile freely admitting all of ouI
!. follies and weaknesses of today, it il
! mere perversity to refuse to realize thu
, incredible advance that has been mad,
= in ethical standards. I do not believe
a that there is the slightest necessary con
nection between any weakening o
virile force and this advance in tn
" moral standard, this growth of tn
sense of obligation to ones neighbo
and of reluctance to do that neighbo
: wrong. We need have scant patienc
= with that silly cynicism which insist
y that kin,dliness of character only &C
!, companies weakness of character. o.
u the contrary, just as in private lif
- many of the men of strongest char
acter are the very men of loftiest an
! most exalted morality, so believe tina
!, in national life as the ages go by W
- shall find that the permanent nationa
: types will more and more tend toward
those in which, while the intellec
stands high, character stands higher; /
which rugged strength and. courage
:, rugged capacity to resist wrongful as
Z gression by others, will go hand in han
- with lofty scorn of doing wrong t
= others. This is the type of TimoleoI
of Hampden, of Washington and Lir
coin.
:. GAS in war to pardon the coward
- to do cruel wrong TO the brave ma
whose life his eowardice ieopardizes, 5
in civil affairs it is revolving to ever
principle of Justice TO give the lazy, til
vicious, or even the feeble and dull
witted, a reward which is really til
"A robbery of what drawer, wiser, able
men have earned. The only effeetiy
way to help any map is to help hi
r. to help himself; and the worst lesso
n to teach him is that he can be PERM
nenely helped at the expense Of SON
one else. True liberty shows itself
best advantage in protecting the RICH
Of others, and especially Of minoritis
be Privilege should not be tolerate
he because it is to the advantage
I minority, nor yet because it is
the advantage Of a majority.
"You belong to a nation which po
- sesses the greatest empire upon While
the sun has ever shone. belong
AN nation which is trying on a sea
hitherto unexampled, 70 work out Il
~ problems Of government for, Of, A.
BY the people, while at the same tin