Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28
ROOSEVELT AT SORBONNE.
Delivers First of Formal Lectures to be
Given in Europe to Enthusiast
tic Audience.


world Of Paris has paid its tribute to
Theodore Roosevelt, ex-president Of
the United States. The distinguished
American delivered his lecture In the
Sorbonne, the first of the series Of
formal addresses he is to make in
European cities, and was the recipient
Of the highest honors and the warm.
est applause.
Colenel Roosevelt was driven from
his hotel to the Sorbonne early in the
afternoon, and the street through
which he passed were thronged with
men. women and children who cheered
him enthusiastically. He genially &C
knowledged their greetings, as he did
those Of the immense crowd that he'd
assembled outside the sorbonne, I'M
able to gain admittance, but deter
mined to see the famous visitor.
Lecture In the sorbonne.
When the applause that greeted his
appearance had died down, the ex-
president was introduced by the rec
tor and at once began the delivery Of
his lecture. His subject was Citizen
ship in a Republic" and his words
were addressed especially to young
men. Speaking easily and huenNy in
French so excellent that II caused his
auditors to wonder, the lecturer set
forth vigorously and eloquently his
ideas Of the opportunities, and more
particularly the duties of citizens I'M
der such governments as those n the
United States and France At the
close Of his address the applause was
long and hearty, and Mr.. Roosevelt
was warmly congratulated by a num-
Der Of the distinguished men who had
heard him.
Mr.. RooseVeIt's Speech.
Mr.. Roosevelt spoke as follows:
Strange and impressive associations
rise in the mind of a man in the world
who speaks before this august body in
this ancient institution of learning Be
fore his eyes pass the shadows of
mighty kings and warlike mobiles, of
great masters of law, and theology;
through the shining dust OF the dead
centuries he sees crowded figures that
tell OF the power and learning and
'splendor of times gone by; and he
sees also the innumerable host of
humble students 10 whom clerkship
meant emancipation, to whom it was
well nigh the only outlet in the dark
thraldom of the middle ages.
Service Stretched Far Back.
This was the most famous university
of medieval Europe at a time when
no one dreamed that there was a new
world to discover. Its services to the
cause of human knowledge already
stretched far back into the remote
past at the time when my forefath-
ers, three centuries ago, we're among
the sparse bands of traders, plowmen,
wood choppers and fisherfolk who, in
hard struggle with the iron unfriend-
illness of the lndian-haunted land. were
laying the foundations Of what has
now become the giant republic Of the
west
Meet PrimeVal Conditions.
To conquer a continent, to tame the
shaggy TOughness of wild nature
means grim warfare; and the genera
tons engaged in it cannot keep, still
less add to the stores of garnered wis.
dom which were theirs, and which are
still in the hands of their brethren
who dwell in the old land. To con.
Quer the wilderness means to wrest
victory from the same hostile forces
with which mankind struggled in the
immemorial infancy of our race. The
primeval conditions must be met by
primeval qualities which are incom
patible with the retention of much
that has been painfully acquired by
humanity as through the ages it has
6triyen upward toward civilization. In
condition so primitive there can be
but a primitive culture. Al first only
the rudest schools can be established
for no others would meet the needs
Of the hard driven, sinewy folk whit
thrust forward the frontier in the
teeth of the savage and savage ma
ture; and many years elapse befor,
any Of these schools can develop int
seats OF higher learning and broade
culture.
AS the country grows, its people
who have won success in so man!
lines, turn back to try to recover th,
possessions Of the mind and the spir
II, which perforce their fathers threw
aside in order better TO wage tn,
FIRST rough battles for the continen
their children inherit The leaders o
thought and Of action grope their wa,
forward to a new life, realizing, some
times dimly sometimes clear-sighted
~, that the life of material gain
whether for a nation or an Individual
Is of value onls as a foundation, onl
as there is aSAed to it the uplift tina
comes from devotion to loftier ideals
The new life thus sought can in par
be developed afresh from what i
round about in the new world; but
can be developed in full only by free
ay drawing upon the treasure house
of the old world, upon the treasure
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