Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-04-23
CITIZENSHIP
IN A REPUBLIC.
Colonel Roosevelt Tells the
French Why We Succeed.
HIS VIEWS ON SOCIALISM.

Address IN Paris--TaIks Of Mans
Chief Duty. Danger Of Class Hatred
and Appeals For Patriotic Spirit.
No Room For slishtsrs
Paris. April 29.--Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt delivered the following ad-
dress on citizenship In Republic" at
the scrbonne:
Strange aud impressive associations
rise IN the mind Of a man from the
new world who speaks before this au-
gust 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 he sees also the innumerable
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.
Today ! shall speak to you on the
subject of individual citizenship, the
one subject of vital Importance to you,
my hearers. and to me and my coun-
trymen. because you and we are citi-
zens of great democratic republics. A
democratic republic such as each of
ours-an effort to realize In its full
sense government by, of and for the
people-represents the most gigantic
of all possible social experiments. the
one fraught with greatest possibilities
alike for good and for evil.
The success Of republics like yours
and like ours means the glory and our
failure the despair of mankind, and
for you and for US the question of the
quality of the individual citizen is SUI
preme.
To Succeed Be Good.
With you here and with us in my
own home. In the long run. success 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. everyday affairs
of life and next In those great occa-
sional crises which call for the heroic
virtues The average citizen must be
a good citizen II our republics are to
succeed
Let the man OF learning, the man of
lettered leisure. beware Of that queer
and cheap temptation TO pose to him
self and TO others as the cyhlc. as the
man who has outgrown emotions and
beliefs. the man to whom good and
evil are as one The poorest way to
face life is to face It with sneer.
There is no more uuhealthy being.
no man less worthy of respect. than he
who either really holds or feigns to
hold an attitude of sneerlng disbelief
toward all that is great and lofty.
whether in achievement or ip that no
bic effort which, even II IL fail. comes
second 10 achievement.
Shame on the mun of cultivated taste
who permits refinement TO develop into
doing the rough work Of a workaday
world. Among the free peoples who
govern themselves there is but small
tield OF usefulness open for the men
Of clolstered life who shrink from con
tact with their fellows.
No Room For Sliehtsrs.
still less room IS there for those who
deride 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 to
take action II only the conditions of
life were not what they actually are
The mAn who does nothing cuts the
same sordid figure In the pages OF his
tory. whether he be cynic OF fop or
goluptuary.
II Is war worn Hotspur. spent with
hard lighting. be Of the many errors
aud the valiant end, over whose mem
ory we love TO finger. not over the
memory OF the young lord who but
for the vile guns would have been
aoldier"
The good man should be both
strong and a brave man-that Is, he
should be able to light. he should be
able TO serve his country as soldier
II the need arises There are well
meaning philosophers who declalm
against the unrighteousness OF war
They are right only " they lay all
sheir emphasis upon the unrlgh,eous-
ness. War Is a dreadful thing. and
unjust war Is a crime against human
ity. But II Is such crime because Il
Is unjust. not because It Is war
The choice must ever be Ia favor Of
righteousness and this whether the
alternative be peace or whether the
alternative be war. The question must
uot be merely. Is there 90 be peace or
warf The question must be- Is the
right 10 prevail?
Are the great laws OF righteousness
once more to be fulhlledy And the an
swer from a strong and ylrile people
must be Yes" whatever the cost.
Every honorable effort should always
be made 10 avoid war; just as every
honorable effort should always be
made by the Individual In private life
10 keep out Of a brnwl, 70 keep out OF
trouble. bug no self respecting indi'
yidual, no self respecting nation. can
on ought 70 submit 20 wrone