Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-03-28
ROOSEVELT MAKES
BOLD ADDRESS
Denounces Student of Uni
versity of Egypt Who
Was an Assassin
REFERRED TO POLITICAL AFFAIR
Applause and Ovation Given
Him for His Courageous and
Timely Words.

Van W IA5g pt, Alii vi -c' CSioAiNi
Roosevelt today delivered an address
before the students of the University
of Egypt. AS man who spoke fire.
quently, he warned his audience to
have nothing to do with a man who
did not make good his words by ac-
tions. Colonel Roosevelt referred to
the assassination by student last
month of Botros Pasha Ghal, the
premier and minister of foreign af-
fairs, as a calamity to Egypt, and his
denunciation of the assassin was re-
ceived with great applause. The hall
of the university, was crowded with
Egyptians, officers, students and
women and Colonel Roosevelt was Civ
en- an enthusiastic welcome. There
was much applause at the conclusion
of the address and it is generally be-
lieved his bold reference to Egyptian
political affairs will have a good eff
feet on the country generally.
Colonel Roosevelt's Address.
Cairo, Egypt, March 2S.-Colonel
Roosevelt, in his address at the
Egyptian University said in part:
mo man may reach the front rank
who is not intelligent and not trained
with intelligence. Mere intelligence
itself is worse than useless if unguid-
ed by an upright heart with strength
and courage behind it. Morality, de-
cency, clean living courage, manliness
and self-respect are more important
than mental subtlety. An honest,
courageous and far-sighted politician
is a good thing in any country where
his usefulness depends chiefly upon
his ability to express the wishes of
the population in which the population
forms only fragment of the leader
ship and where the business man for
the landowner, the engineer, the man
Of technical knowledge-men of a hun
dred different pursuits-represent the
average type of leadership.
No people have permanently
amounted to anything whose only pub
lie leaders were clerks, politicians and
lawyers. Remember always that the
securing of a substantial education
whether by a group of individuals or
a people, is attained only by progress
as unit. You can no more make man
really educated by giving him GER
tain curriculum of studies than you
fNr Golf
ment by giving them a paper exami
nation. The training of an individual
in order to fit him to do good work
in the world is matter of years anC
the training of a nation to fit itself 81
as to fulfill the duties of self-govern
ment is not matter of a decade O.
two but of generations.
Some foolish persons believe tina
the granting of paper examination
prefaced by some high sounding decla
rations in itself confers the power o
selfgovernment. This was never SO
Nobody can give people self-goverr
ment any more than it is possible t.
give an individual self-help. Yo1
know the old Arab proverb, God help
those who help themselves In tn
long run the only permanent way fo
the individual to be helped is to hel
E himself. This is one of the thing
, your university should inculcate.
Growth of Character.
Man is slow in the growth of cha
acter. The final determining factor i
the problem with people-any pei
pie possessed of the essential quail
ties-is to show no haste in graspin
power, which it is only too easy t
misuse. The slow, steady and resi-
lutte development of these substantis
; qualities-love, justice, fair play, tn
| spirit of self-reliance and moderatio
/ alone will enable a people to go
3 ern themselves. In the long, tediou
and absolutely essential process 1 b.
lieve your university takes an impor
. ant part. Do not forget the old Ara
! proverb God is with the patient
< they know how to wait This spir
: condemns every lawless act, evi
I envy and hatred and above all, hatre
based on religion or race.
"All good men, all men of every n
ton whose respect is worth havin
y were shocked by the assassination {
Boutros Pacha Chali. 1t was a grea
v er calamity to Egypt than wrong
the individual himself. The type I
man that turns assassin is the tyI
g possessing all the qualities that allie
0 ate him from good citizenship; tt
> type producing poor soldiers in tin
n of war and worse citizens in time
/ peace. Such persons stand on the pi
!, nacle of evil and infamy. Those ape
l. ogizing for or condoning his act
word or deed, directly or indirect
8 encouraging such an act in advant
), of, or defending it afterward, occul