The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-04-23
By Associated Press.

~ ~~N~SS%e~N~~ a N@ses
Paris, April 23-Theodore Roose
welt, ex-president of the United States
delivered his eagerly expected lecture
on Citizenship in Republic" in the
Sorbonne this afternoon. The vast
audience was composed of all mem
bers of the French cabinet, students
from the university of Paris. and many
distinguished guests. by whom the
occasion was regarded as the most i'm
portant feature of the distinguished
Americans visit to France.
Col. Roosevelt spoke on individual
citizenship in the republics of France
and the United States. In part he
said:
with you here, and with us in
my own home, in the long run, sue
cess 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, every
day affairs of life. and next in those
great occasional crises which call foI
the heroic virtues. The average clti
zen must be a good citizen if oul
republics are to succeed. The
stream will not permanently rise
higher than the main source; and the
main source of national power and
national greatness is found in the av
erage citizenship of the nation. There
fore it behooves us to do our best tC
see that the standard of the average
citizen is kept high; and the aver
age cannot be kept high unless the
standard of the leaders is very muct
higher.
1T is well if large proportion o.
the leaders in any republic, in any
democracy, as a matter of course
drawn from the classes represented il
this audience today; but only pro
vided that those classes possess the
gifts Of sympathy with plain people
and of devotion to great ideals. YoJ
and those like you have received spe
cial advantages; you have all of yoI
had the opportunity for mental train
ing; many of you have had leisure
most of you have had a chance fol
the enjoyment of life far greater thar
comes to the majority of your fel
lows. To you and your kind mucf
has been given, and from you mucf
should be expected.
''It 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 then
( better The credit belongs to the
man who is actually in the arena
whose face is marred by dust anC
sweat and blood; who strives valiantly
who errs, and comes short again anC
again, because there is no effort with
out error and shortcoming; but who
does actually strive to do the deeds;
who knows the great enthusiasm, the
great devotions; who spends himself
in a worthy cause; who at the besi
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 this 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 In
fastidiousness that units him fol
doing the rough work Of workaday
world. Among the free peoples who
govern themselves there is but 9
small field of usefulness open for the
men of cloistered life who shrink
from contact with their fellows. Still
less room is there for those who de
ride or slight what is done by those
who actually bear the brunt of the
day; nor yet for those others who al
ways profess that they would like tC
take action. If only the conditions
of life were not what they actually
are.
Z pay all homage to intellect, and
to elaborate and specialized training
of the intellect; and yet ! know
shall have the assent of all of you
present when add that more i'm