East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-05-12
Roosevelt Makes His Address
to a Large Crowd at Uni
yersity Of Berlin. |
SUBJECT OF ADDRESS is
1.-THE WORLD MOVEMENT
Warm Sunshine and Throat Special
lists Cooperate to Enable Him to De-
liver Prepared Address-Compares
Civilizations of Past With That OF
Present-Enumerate Virtues. Ne
cessary for Great Government.

Berlin, May 12.-Sunshine and
warmth, aided by throat specialists
enabled Colonel Roosevelt to deliver
his address. A large crowd gathered
to hear the distinguished American
speak on 1.-THE World Movement"
After comparing the civilization Of the
past with the civilization Of the pres
ent he concluded:
"What is the lesson to us today?
Are we to go the way Of the older civ
ilizations? The immense increase in
the area Of civilized activity today. 30
that 1t is nearly coterminous with the
worlds surface; the immense increase
in the multitudinous variety of its
activities: the immense increase in
the velocity Of the world movement
are all these to mean merely that the
crash will be all the more complete
and terrible when it comes? We can
not be certain that the answer will
be in the negative; but of this we can
be certain, that we shall not go down
to ruin unless we deserve and earn
our end. There Is no necessity for us
to fall; We can hew out our destiny
for ourselves, II only we have the wit
and the courage and the honesty.
PERSONALLY, / do not believe that
our civilization will fall. think that
on the whole we have grown better
and not worse. I think that on the
whole the future holds more for us
than the great past has held. But,
assuredly. the dreams of golden glory
in the future will not come, true un-
less, high of heart and strong of hand,
by our own mighty deeds we make
them come true. We cannot afford
to develop any one set of qualities, any
one set of activities, at the cost OF
seeing others, equally necessary,
atrophied. Neither the military eff
cheney of the Mongol, the extraordi-
nary business ability of the Phoeni-
clan, nor the subtle and polished in
tellect of the Greek availed to avert
destruction.
What We Need.
1--WE, the men of today apd Of the
future, need many qualities il we are
. do our work we'll. We need, first
of all and most important of all, the
qualities which stand at the base OF
individual, of family life, the funda-
mental and essential qualities-the
homely, everyday, all-important vir-
tues. If the average man will moi
work, IL he has not in him the will
and the power to be good husband
and father; if the average woman Is
not a good housewife, good mother
of many healthy children, then the
state will topple, will go down, nc
matter what may be its brilliance OF
artistic development or material
achievement But these homely quail
tiles are not enough There must, in
addition, be that power of organization
that power Of working in common fol
a common end, which the German
people have shown In such sigma
fashion during the last half-century
Moreover. the things of the spirit are
even more important than the things
of the body. We can well do without
the hard intolerance and arid intel
lectual barrenness of what was wors
in the theological systems of the pas
but there has never been greater neet
of high and fine religious spirit thar
at the present time. So, while we car
laugh good-humoredly at some of thu
pretensions Of modern philosophy II
its various branches, 1t would b
worse than folly on our part to ig
more our need of intellectual leader
ship.
Value of Science.
"Your own great Frederick onc'
said that II he wished to punish
province he would leave 1t to be gov
erned by philosophers; the sneer ha'
in 1t an element of justice: and ye
no one better than the great Freder
lex knew the value of philosophers
the value Of men Of science. men
letters, men of art. 1t would be ba'
thing indeed to accept Tolstoy as
ruide in social and moral matters; bu
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