Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1910-04-27

PARIS. France, April 23.-To uss
,.p,esiaent Rooseveits own words
IOds, marked the crewning of his
.,e,r AZ a man Of letters.
| From noon until midnight, he wa
/, yves, Of the intellectual world
y, He participated ~ Q member,
,be session Of the French Academy,
r,r delivering n lecture at sor.
Sopne. which, NJ he said, was the
k,,mos, seat Of learning in Europe
Wore America was discovered.
| Ne remained as n guest Of the fac.
NV. for dinner, and then q grand
.t,p,ion was given by the University
bis honor. H.
Roosevelt's reception At the Insti.
ue At Sorbonne was equally I'm.
re~ive, but in different way. At
former he was introduced merely
a member, taking his seat among
distinguished conferes. After
,,ening TO the speech Of the presi.
.u, Of the CLUB, Roosevelt replied
French. his utterances arousing his
sasrable colleagues 10 unwonted 'Ap.
iuse.
Prssiden, ,Roosevelt's speech in full
blows:
Strange and impressive associations
- in the mind Of man from the
IN World who SPEAKS before this
ugus body in this ancient institu.
o. Of learning. Before his eyes pass
J. shadows OF mighty kings and war.
h mobiles, Of great masters Of law
ID theology; through the shining
ua Of the dead centuries he sees
IOxded figures that tell Of the power
ID learning and splendor Of times
DO, by; and no sees also the in.
unsrable host Of humble students 10
bon cierkship meant emancipation,
whom II was wcll.nigh the only
ir from the dark thrsldom Of the
dale Ages.
THIS was the most famous university
mediseyal Europe pt . time when
one dreamed that there was New
ora to discover. ID services 10 the
use Of human knowledge already
(rtched far back into the remote
" 4, the time when my forefathers,
nee centuries ago, were among the
arse bands of traders, plowmen,
OOdehoppers, and fsherfolk who, in
lrd struggle with the iron unfriend-
hs. Of the Indian. haunted land, were
gng the foundations Of what has
W become the giant republic Of the
et. To conquer continent. to
me the shaggy roughness of wild ma
", means grim warfare; and the
lterations engaged in IL cannot keep,
Ill less add to, the stores Of garner
wisdom which once were theirs,
u which are still in the hands OF
sir brethren who dwell in the old
3D. To conquer the wilderness means
wrest victory from the same hostile
s,e with which mankind struggled
the immemorial infancy Of our race
primeval conditions must be met
pdmeval qualities which are In
ppatible with the retention Of much
has been painfully acquired by
nanl'y as through the ages II has
nyen upward toward civilization. IN
EDITIONS ms primitive there can b'
a primitive culture. At first only
mdest schools can be established
no others would meet the needs
the hard.driven, sinewy folk wbt
far forward the frontier in Tho
VI OF savage man and savage ma
W. and many years elapse before
Of these schools can develop into
Us Of higher learning and broader
,ure.
lAe pioneer days pass; the stump
We'd elearings expand into vas
'l'hes Of fertile farm land; thu
ssaded clusters of log cabins chang
towns; the hunters Of game, thu
uen OF trees, the rude frontier
sder and tillers Of the soil, tn
who wander all their lives loni
eugh the wilderness as the herald
harblngers Of an oncoming civil
Won, themselves vanish before thu
.niiatlon for which they have pre-
yea the way. The children Of thei
'e"ors and supplsnters, and thel
" children and children's children
'ee and develop with extraordin
nPidity. The conditions accen
" vices and virtues, energy AM
s'',sness, all the good qualitie
al the defects OF an. intense In
'aaallsm, self.reliant, self.centered
more conscious Of It's rights thai
rs duties, and blind to it's owl
''somlngs. To the hard material
/" the frontier days succeeds tn
materalism Of an industrialisn
!. more intense and absorbing thai
OF the older nations; althoug
y themselves have likewise alread'
nd On the age of n complex an
humanity industrial civilization.
Mistake TO Merely Copy.
The country grows, its people
nave won success In 20 man,
'ufn back TO try TO recover tn
Il'hons Of the mind and the spirit
perforce their fathers thre'
"a order better to wage the mrs
~ battles for the continent thei
inherit. The leaders 0
at aad Of action gYops their W.
sud TO q nav lifa rnslisin9. oon<