The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-04-23
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PARIS, April 2S.-col. Roosevelt
Edeliyered at the University of 'sar-
bonne to-day the first Of four lectures
| in Europe, The faculty, students and
hundreds Of distinguished Frenchmen
Of letters were present. He read from
manuscript but frequently spoke with
out refernce to copy. The most i'm
I.portant utterances OF his address were
defense Of human rights against
property rights indicating that the
Colonel intends to continue fighting
| for what he considers the rights o;
humanity. When he excOriated those
responsible for Race suicide In
France he advanced to the front Of
the stage and chopped bis words OF
in old time vigor. Roosevelt's nose
glasses, which with his teeth are an
asset for the cartoonist. we're exchang-
ed for new pair from a leading Paris
oculist. Ambassador Bacon and the
Colonel motored through the city this
morning while the crowd cheered,
/ In two downtown places the crowds
blocked the automobile and gendarmes
relieved the congestion.
Col. Roosevelt's address in part was
as follows:
Strange and impressive associations
rise in the mind of a man from the
New World who speaks before this
august body in this ancient institution
Of learning. Before 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 ne sees also. the innnmerable
host Of humble students to whom
clerkship meant emancipation, to
whom it was well-nigh. the only outlet
from the dark thraldom Of the Middle
Ages.
This was the most famous universl.
ty Of mediaeyal Europe at time
when no one dreamed thatt here was
a New World to discover. Its services
to the cause Of human knowledge al
ready stretched far back into the re-
mote past at the time when my fore,
fathers, three centuries ago, were
among the sparse bands of traders,
plowmen, woodchoppers and fisher
folk who in hard struggle with the
iron unfriendliness Of the Indian.
haunted land were laying the tounda-
tions OF what has now become the
giant republic Of the west. To con-
duer a continent, to tame the shaggy
roughness OF wild nature means grim
warfare; and the generations engaged
in it cannot keep, still less add to, the
stores Of garnered wisdom which once
were theirs, and which are still in the
hands OF their brethren who dwell in
the old land. To conquer the wilder.
ness means to wrest victory from the
same hostile forces with which man.
kind struggled in the immortal lnfan.
cy OF our arce The prlmeyal condi.
tlons must be met by prlmevai quail
tiles which are incompatible with the
retention OF much that has been pain
fully acquired by-humanlty as through
tile ages 1t has strlyen upward toward
civilization. In conditions so primi-
tive there can be but primitive cul-
ture. AT first only the udest schools
can be established, for no others
would meet the needs Of the hard,
driven sinewy folk who thrust forward
the frontier in the teeth of savage
men and savage nature; and many
years eIapse before any Of these
schools can develop into seats of high.
er learning and broader culture.
The pioneer days pass; the stump.
dotted clearlngs expand into vast
stretches of efrtile farmland; the
stretches Of fertile farmland; the
change into towns; the hunters of
game, the fellers Of trees, the rude
frontier traders and tillers of the soil,
the men who wander all their lives
long through the Wilderness as the
heralds and harbingers Of an oncom-
ing civilization, themselves vanish be.
fore the civilization Tor which they
have prepared the way. The children
Of their successors and supplanters,
and then their children aud children's
children, change and develop with ex-
traordinary rapidlty The conditions
accentpate vices and virtues, energy
and ruthlessness, all the good quail.
ties and all 5theSd etects ot an intense
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