Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-04-01
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ROOSEVELT ExHORTS EGYPTIANS
Former President Speaks at University
In Cairo

HOOSEVEl ENHOH y EG1P IHNS
Former President Speaks at University
In Cairo.
Col. Roosevelt, in his address at the
Egyptian university, at Cairo a few
days ago, said in part:
No man may reach the front rank
VINO is not intelligent and not trained
with intelligence. Mere intelligence it.
guided by an upright heart with
strength and courage behind 1t. Nor
ality, decency, clean living, courage,
manliness and self-respect are more
important than mental subtlety. An
honest, courageous and far sighted pol
itician is good thing in any country,
where his usefulness depends chiefly
on his ability to express the wishes Of
the population in which the politician
forms only a fragment Of the leader
ship, and where the business man, the
land owner the engineer, the man Of
technical knowledge, men Of a hundred
age type of leadership.
No people have permanently
amounted to anything whose only pub
lie leaders were clerks, politicians and
lawyers. Remember always that the
securing of a substantial education,
whether by a group of individuals or
a people, is attained only by progress
as a unit You can no more make a
man really educated by giving him
certain curriculum of studies than you
can make a people fit for self-govern-
ment by giving them paper constitu-
ton. The training of an individual, in
order to fit him to do good work in
the world, Is matter Of years, and the
training Of nation to fit 1t successful
ly to fulfill the duties of self govern
ment is not a matter of a decade or
two, but Of generations.
Some foolish persons believe that the
granting of a paper constitution, pre-
faced by some high-sounding declara-
ton, in itself confers the power Of self
government. This was never so. No
body can give people government
any more than it is possible to give an
individual self-help. You know the old
proverb, God helps those who help
themselves
I'm 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 indicate.
Man is slow in the growth of char
acter. The final determining factor of
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, the steady and resolute de-
velopment of those substantial quail
tiles, love, justice, fair play, the spirit
of self-reliance and moderation alone
will enable the people to govern them
selves In the long, tedious and abso-
lutely essential process, l believe your
university takes an important part.
Do not forget the old Arab proverb,
how to wait This spirit condemns
every lawless act, evil, envy and hatred,
and above all, hatred based on religion
or race.
''All good men, all men of every ma
tion, whose respect is worth having,
were inexpressibly shocked by the as
sassination of BOutros Pacha Ghali.
1t was greater calamity to Egypt than
q wrong to the individual himself.
The type of man that turns assassin
is the type possessing all the qualities
which ALLEVIATE him from good citizen
ship the type producing poor soldiers
in the time of war and worse citizens
in time of peace. Sucn man stands
on the pinnacle of evil and infamy.
Those apoiogizins for, or condoning HIS
act by wCrd or deed, directly or indi-
rectly, encourage such an act in ad-
vance, or, defending it afterward, oc-
cupy the same bad eminence.
1T is of no consequence whether the
assassin is Moslem or Christian, or
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committed in political strife or indus
trial warfare. The rich mans hired
act. performed by poor man. whether
committed with the purpose of pre-
serving order, or of obtaining liberty,
Is equally abnorrent in the eyes Of all
decent men and in the long run equally
damaging to every cause the assassin
possesses"