The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-04-24
MARKED GROWING or HIS
CAREER AS MAN OF LET.
TIERS, HE SAID.
AT THE FRENCH ACADEMY
He Appeared Yesterday, in His Full
Membership Address on
Citizenship at Sorbonnc
University.

Paris, April 23.---To use Roosevelt's
own words today marked the crown
ing OF his career as man of letters
From noon until midnight he was Tho
guest of intellectual Paris, participat
ing as member at the session oi
the Frenzy academy. delivering q
lecture at Sorbonne and remaining as
the guest of the family at dinner, and
a grand reception, given by the uni
versity
Roosevelt, at the French institute
was introduced merely as member
and he took seat among the dis
tinguisheI confereers most of whom
have grown old in the service of sci
ence. After listening to S, NJ. Bou-
trox, of the Academy of Moral and
Political Sciences. who spoke of
American ideals and character, of
which, he said, Roosevelt was the
best exponent, Roosevelt replied in
venerable colleagues to unwonted ap-
plause
At Sorbonne, the facade bristled
with American and French flags, and
fully 25,o00 persons packed the
streets and acclaimed Roosevelt,
Within the building the enthusiasm
was unbounded, the vast crowd inter
rupting again and again with storms
Of applause as the speaker defined
the duties of individual citizenship in
the republic.
Several times he interiected obser-
vations in French, and after he had
defined human rights and property
rights. he repeated this in French,
saying that it constituted the crux
of what he had to say, and he desired
everyone to understand him. His
words In this connection were
MY position regards the moneyed
interests can be put in very few
words, In eevry civilized society
property rights must be carefully
safeguarded. Ordinarily, and in a
great majority of cases, human rights
and property rights are fundamentally
and in the long run identical, But
when it clearly appears that there is
real conflict between them, human
rights must have the upper hand, for
the property belongs to the man, and
not the man to the property"
The distinguished personages, who
included, besides the deans of the
various universities, Premier BRAND
and the cabinet. and other notables
of the republic evidently as much
impressed as the students and joined
heartily in the applause, especially
when Roosevelt spoke against race
suicide and the necessity for the ma
tion to perpetuate itself.
Following the lecture of Vice Rec.
tor Lizard, in behalf of the University,
he presented Roosevelt with bust
of Jefferson and two vases made at
Sevres. But a curious mistake was
made in the bust The bust of Lin
coin had been ordered but in an un
accountable way one of Jefferson was
manufactured. The French ambas-
sador has arranged to hive the orig
inal order executed.
Before the French Academy Roose.
velt told of how he had received the
news of his election to the Academy
while hunting the white Rhino at the
equator. Boutrox, he said, define |
his moral conception of life better
than he could himself He con
tinued:
II have always tried to translate
into action the moral principles which
must inspire the life of men and ma
tions. There can be no economic civ
flization without morality. Genius is
not essential, but only courage, hon
esty, sincerity and common sense
Men of genius without these qualities
are curse to the nation. They do
more harm than good
Extracts From Lecture.
In short, the good citizen in re-
public must realize that he ought to
posses: two sets OF. qualities, and
that neither avails without the other.
He must have those qualities which
make for efficiency; and he must also
have those qualities which direct the
efficiency into channels for the pub
lie good. He is useless If he is in
efficient. There Is nothing to be done
with that type of citizen OF whom all
that can be said is that he is harm
less. Virtue which is dependent upon
a sluggish circulation is not impress
sive. There is little place in active
life for the timid good man. The man
who lis saved by the weakness from
robuss lwickcdnts Is likewise rem
dered immune from the robust vir-
tues. The good citizen In a republic
must first OF all be able to hold his