Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-04-30
ASAMAN OF LETTERS
ROOSEVELT SPENDS DAY AT
FRENCH CAPITAL.

tnLlVUll UHI ii Al
Delivers a Mastery Address at Sor-
bonne Receiving Great Ovation
Takes His Seat as Member of French
Academy-25,o 900 People Hear His
Address
Paris, April 24.--Colonel Roosevelt Is
own word Saturday marked the crown
| ing of his career as man of letters.
He participated as a member at ses-
sion of the French academy, delivered
lecture at the Sorbonna, which, as
he said, was the foremost seat of learn
ing in Europe before America was
discovered, and remaining as the guest
of the faculty for dinner and the grand
reception given by the university in his
honor.
Colonel Roosevelt Is reception at the
institute and that at the Sorbonne
were equally impressive, but in a diff
ferent way. At the former he was in
troduced merely as a member and he
took seat among the distinguished
confreres, most of whom have grown
old in the service of science.
According to the traditional custom
of the Academy of Moral and Political
Sciences, Mr.. Roosevelt entered with
out formal presentation.
Greeting Is Enthusiastic.
Emile Boutroux, who presided, after
the customary routine business had
been concluded, addressed the academy
on the result of his observations,
made during his recent visit to the
United States regarding the growth
of education there. M. Boutroux took
Colonel Roosevelt's ideal as the high.
est type of man which American edu
= cation sought to produce, quoting fire.
t quently Roosevelt IS own words in the
l exposition of his theme.
Roosevelt's Address.
In his address on Citizenship in 6
Republic,' Theodore Roosevelt, former
president of the United States, among
> other things, said;
The life of material gain, whether foi
a nation or an individual, is of value
only as foundation.
The main source of national powe
and national greatness is found in tn
average citizenship of the nation.
The poorest way to face life is t.
q face it with sheer.
/ Credit belongs to the man who i
e actually in the arena, whose face
II marred by dust and sweat and blood.
II The man who does nothing cuts
sordid figure in history.
n The most important are the common
It place, everyday qualities and virtues
v The first essential in any civiIizatio
If is that the man and the woman sha
le be father and mother of healthy chi
W dren.
lie The mere multimillionaire is not a
asset of value to any country.
To admire the gift of oratory will
out regard to the moral quality benin
the gift is to do wrong to the republic
"a Otfenses against taste and moral
which are bad enough in a private cit
d. zen, are infinitely worse if made int
is instruments for debauching the COMM
d. nifty through newspaper.
To Judge a man merely by success
an abhorrent wrong.
Let us try to level up, but let us b
oi ware of the evil of leveling down.
Ut Good citizenship is indispensable
~ the perpetuity of republics.
d The exercise of citizenship by ever
GO individual possessing it is of vital il
ne portance. The success of a republic
conditioned on the way the average ms
ne does his duty in everyday affairs al
ui in crises that call for heroic virtues.
az 1t follows that character, as the su
nc of good qualities, is the supreme ne'
u of a republic.
nc sense of honor are the requisites of t
'ai good citizen. So are the will and t
power to work, to fight, to have plen
of healthy children.
ia Character must show itself in t
he citizen IS performance of his duties
himself, his family, his neighbor, t
~ state and other nations.
~ 1t is essential to good citizenship
~ understand that such gifts, for examp
he as the capacity for money making,
ON oratory, for welding the power of t
N. press, deserve admiration only VIII
he used Alright. Regard must be had to
mn moral quality behind the gift.
30 The good citizen must realize that
ought to possess those qualities viii
make for efficiency, and those, al
which direct efficiency to the pub
good. If efficiency be not guided a
IFS ruled by the moral sense, the efficiG
citizen becomes the evil citizen.
The worthy citizen will demand
ine erty for himself, but also see that 9th
ecu receive the liberty he claims. He mi
1.n combine earpestness of conviction W