Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-15
And Fertilization Of the
Panama Canal
Best Guarantee Of Peace says
Roosevelt al Cambridge.
carnegle's Gift Most lmpestaat lot
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speaking on applied ethics" as, the
Noble lecturer in Sanders Theatre to-
night, Col. Theodore Roosevelt grasped
the opportunity of applying the build
ing of the Panama canal. the progress
of conservation and the movement to-
ward general peace as typif1ed by
the recent fisheries decision at The
Hague.
The Noble lecture at Harvard Is
provided by fund by Mrs. William
=. Noble, in memory of her husband.
an Episcopal clergyman, and Is for
the benefit of the students and the
faculty. Col. Roosevelt's visit to
Massachusetts was for this purpose,
although be also attended q meeting
of the Harvard overseers this fore
loon in Boston. Col. Roosevelt was
elected member Of the board last
June. @~
Just before going onto the lecture
platform tonight. Col. Roosevelt
learned Of the Carnegie Peace Founda-
ton fund which he hailed with great
delight. especially the selection of Sem
ator Elihu Root, as the permanent
representative Of the United States at
The Hague. Toward the end Of his
the gift, as providing the means OF
making Real progress in bringing
about the results which Mr.. Carnegie
desires TO achieve. He is entitled to
the hearty praise of all good citizens
here he said and Of all patriots In
all countries. - f9-
But remember" he said warningly.
that the ultimate worth depends on
the good practical sense. the judg-
ment and ability of the men, who ad-
mastering the fund succeed in trans
ldting the theory into action"
This translation Of the moral theo-
ries OF government into practice or
what he termed Applied morality"
he sought to illustrate by the Panama
canal, under the direction of Col.
Gcethals. conservation as exemplihed
by the ,abors of Garfield and Pinchot,
and the peace movement as furthered
by John Hay and Elihu Root. 50:
Applied morality he said, must
be efficient and must be Of the high
est standard of intregity." And he
applied these in tributes to the Ave
men as wei as to what has been &C.
complished by treaties during the ad-
ministration of President Taft.
Those treaties, he said, represent
a nass of substantial achievement"
Before he closed he had placed him.
self sIuarely in favor of the fortifi-
cation of the canal and of a larger
navy, as the REST guarantee Of peace.
co. Roosevelt was the guest tonight
of President Lowell and will return
home tomorrow, after a call upon Gov.
ernor Draper. H'r
Col. Roosevelt said In opening:
1T is the easiest thing in the world
to sketch out in the closet system ,
of government; and 1t Is one OF the
most difficult things in the world to
make a government really function, In
just the same way it Is proverbiAiiy
easy to preach morality, and s*ill cas-
Ter to apply it when preached: but II
is difficult to do the only thing that
counts. which is to apply the morality
in practice.
For instance. it is greatly to the
credit H any nation, of any govern
ment, when it performs some vast un.
dertaking which will last for many
centuries and which adds perceptibiy
to the sum of achievements OF man.
kind Such an undertaking is the PAN
anna canal. Last spring. when in Eu-
rope was struck by the fact that
every statesman I met deemed two acts
of tire American people during the past
decade pre-eminently worth noting:
those two being the voyage of the bat.
tleship fleet around the world and the
business-like efficiency with which we
were doing the work of the Panama
canal. Now our own people have large
ly been ignorant of the really WONDER
full work that has been done on that
canal. No man in our history. save
only some Of the men engaged in the
great work which founded and perpet-
uated this nation have such claim on
the gratitude Of the nation as those
who have done such efficient work on
thePanama canal. That work repre-
sents one OF our greatest nationally as
sets, one of the greatest feats to Be
credited to our nation throughout our
entire history. Enormous sums OF
money have been spent. and yet there
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