The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-29

statement to each of those who re-
ceived the freight, and that was a
| determined efforts were made to dis
suade him from referring to the as
saSlnatiOn of the premier, BOutrOs
Pacha Ghali, and the political situation
but ex-President Roosevelt delivered
a Scathing denunciation of the assassin
and ais strongly condemned those who
would cOndOne such an act.
Some apprehension is felt at the
possible attitude of the resentful ma
tionalist party and the authorities are
exercising extraordinary vigilance and
are prepared to take extreme meas
ures If any manifestations occur
against Colonel Roosevelt.
Colonel Roosevelt, in his address at
the Egyptian university, said in part:
No man can reach the front rank
who is not intelligent and not trained
with intelligence. Mere intelligence
itself is worse than useless unless it
is guided by an upright heart with
strength and courage behind it. Nor
atty, decency, clean living. courage,
manliness and self respect are more
important than mental subtlety An
politician is a good thing in any
county where his usefulness depends
chiefly upon his ability to express the
wishes of the population, in which the
population forms only a fragment of
the leadership and where the business
man, or the landowner, the engineer,
the man of technical acknowledgement
of hundred different pursuits-rep-
resent the average type of leadership
Training Requires Years.
No people have permanently
amounted to anything whose only
public leaders were clerks, politicians
and lawyers. Remember always that
the securing of a substantial educa-
ton, whether by a group of individ-
uals or a people, is attained only by
progress as a unit. You can no more
make man really educated by CIV
Ing him a certain curriculum of stu
dies than you can make people fit
for self-government by giving them
a paper constitution. TIE training of
an individual in order to fit him to
do good work in the world is. a mat
ter of years and the training of a
nation to fit itself so as to- fulfil the
duties of elf-government is not
matter of a decade or two, but of a
generation.
Some foolish persons believe that
the granting of a paper constitution
prefaced by some high sounding in
structions in itself confers the power
of self government. This was never
so. Nobody can give a people self
government any more than it is pos
sible to give an individual self help.
You know the old Arab proverb, God
helps those who help themselves In
the long run the only permanent way
for the individual to be helped is to
help himself This is one of the things
your university should inculcate. Man
is slow in the growth of character.
The final determining factor in the
problem with a people-any people
possessed of the essential qualities
is to show no haste in grasping
power, which it is only too easy to
misuse. The slow, steady and reso-
lutte development of these substantial
qualities-love, justice, fair play, the
spirit of self-reliance and moderation
alone will enable a people to govern
themselves. In the long, tedious and
absolutely essential process, l believe
your university takes an important
part. Do not forget the old Arab
proverb God is with the patient if
they know how to wait This spirit
condemns every lawless act, evil, envy
and hatred and above all, hatred bas-
ed on religion or race.
'All good men, all men of every
nation whose respect is worth hav-
ing, We're inexpressibly shocked by the
assassination of Boutros Pacha Ghali.
1t was a greater calamity to Egypt
than wrong TO the individual him
self. The type Of man that turns as
sassin is the type possessing all the
qualities that ALLEVIATE him from good
citize nship; the type producing poor
soldiers in time of war and worse
citizens in time of peace. Such per-
sons stand on the pinnacle of evil
and infamy. Those apologizing for or
condon.ng his act by word or deed
directly or indirectly encouraging such
an act in advance or defending it af-
terward. occupy the same bad emf
hence. 1t is of no consequence wheth-
er the assassin is Moslem or Christian,
or with no creed, or whether the
crime was committed in political
strife or industrial warfare. The rich
mans hired act, performed by poor
man. whether committed with the pre-
tense of preserving order or of OBJ
tanning liberty, is equally abhorrent
in the eyes of all decent men and in
the long run equally damaging to
every cause the assassin processes"