Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-23
ROOSEVELT RAP5
RACE SUICIDE TO
FRENCH SAvANTS
Former President Speaks to
Great Gathering OF Scientists
aud Students in Paris.
PROPERTY BELONGS TO
MAN, NOT MAN TO PROPERTY
S0ciaIistic Phrases Characterize
Remarks of Most important
q of His Foreign Addresses.


PARis,<,Ap pril 2S.-Theodore Roose-
yelt, foi1pe- President of the United
States, delivered his eagerly awaited
lecture on citizenship in a Republic"
in the Sorbonne this afternoon. His
audience was composed of all of the
members of the French cabinet. 900
students selected from the University
OF Paris and many distinguished
gusats, by whom the occasion was ra-
gaSded as the most important feature
ogFfhe distinguished Americans visit
TO France.
according to the traditional custom
of the Academy of Moral and Political
Sciences, Theodore Roosevelt entered
without formal presentation.
Emile Boutroux. who presided, after
the customary routine business had
been concluded, addressed the academy
upon the result of his observations
made during his recent visit to the
United States regarding the growth of
education there. After describing the
conflict between general education and
Specialization in studies, and dwelling
Tpon the vast resources of the Amer
fdan universities, M. Boutroux took
Colonel Roosevelt's ideal as the high
estHype of man which American edu-
cation sought to produce, quoting fre-
quently Roosevelt's own words in the
exposition of his theme.
From the doctrine that a man who
sccomplishes nothing and INDUCES only
in criticism is parasite meriting only
scorn, the speaker tFolved Roosevelt's
doctrines, that manfis born for action
to work and to struggle--in other
words for the strenuous life. He said
the aim of the American ideals as
enunciated by Roosevelt was the de-
yelopment of an American soul, one
and inseparable, regardless of the diff
fererc ces of politics or religion.
: 1T Is our duty" said NJ. Boutroux,
IN conclusion, ito consider whether We
cannot learn a lesson from contem-
poraneous America"
gfhe speech of NJ. Laird, vice-rector
OF the University of Paris. in introduce
ing Colonel Roosevelt. was a felicitous
effort After thanking the American
ex-president for accepting the invita-
ton of, the university, Mr.. Laird said
the university particularly wished its
students to hear 'the greatest voice
of the new world, that of the man
who speaks by action as we'll as words.
giving to the world counsels of justice
and energy-justice as the end and
energy as the means
Colonel Roosevelt's address was in
part as follows
Colonel RooseveIt's Address.
with you here, and with us in my
own home, i'll the long run, success or
failure will be conditioned upon the
way in which the average man, the
average woman, does his or her duty,
first in the ordinary, everyday affairs
of life and next in those great oc-
casional crises which call for the heroic
virtues. The average citizen must be
a good citizen if our republics are to
succeed. The stream will not perma-
nently rise higher than the main
source; and the main source of national
power and national greatness is found
in the average citizenship of the ma
tlbn. Therefore it behooves us to do
our best to see that the standard of
flfes average citizen is kept high. and
the average cannot be kept high unless
the standard of the leaders is very
much higher.
1T is we'll if a large proportion of
the leaders in any republic, in any
democracy, are, as a matter of course,
drawn from the classes represented in
this audience today; but only provided
that those classes possess the gifts of
sympathy with plain people and of de-
yotion to great ideals. You and those
like you have received special adj
yantages; you have all of you had the
opportunity for mental training; many
Of you have had leisure; most of you
have had chance for the enjoyment of
life far greater than comes to the ma
Ajerity of your fellows. To you and your
4. - F,-~s.
YOU much should be expected.
4 MY position as regards the moneyed
interests can be put in few words.
In every civilized society property
rights must be carefully safeguarded.
Ordinarily, and in the great majority
ofcases, human rights and property
rights are fundamentally and, in the
long run, identical; but when it clearly
appears that there is a real conflict
between them, human rights must have
the upper hand, for property belongs to
man and not man to property"
II cit is not the critic who counts; not
the man who points out how the strong
man stumbles. or where the doer of
deeds could have done them better The
credit belongs to the man who is ac-
tually in the arena, who face is
1narred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly; who errs, and
comes short again and again. because
there is no effort without error and
shortcoming; but who does actually |
strive to do the deeds; who knows the |
great enthusiasm the great devotions;
who spends himself in worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the |
triumph of high achievement. and who |
at the worst, If he fails, at least fails |
while daring greatly, so that his place
shall never be with those cold and |
timid souls who know neither victory |
nor defeat. Shame on the man of |
cultivated taste who permits refinement
TO develop i'll fastidiousness that un-
fits him for doing the rough work of
q worl1aday world. Among the free