The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-08
||TIcl[ ABUSES
lusT GIVE WAY
Ito PROGRESS
COL ROOSEVELT.
rner President Delivers Forceful
ooture at Famous Oxford Uni
kversity on Biological Analogies
In History"
Donounces Socialism, Repeats His
/ Warming Against Race Suicide and
Urges Preparation for War.


Dund q defense for British and Amer
han Imperialism in the Biological
knalogies In History" on which he
opoke al Oxford university today.
The all-important factor In national
kreatness is national character. was
his final analysis.
He described the chief dangers
4 fhreafening England and the United
1S3<afes as "the growth In luxury, IN
hive OF ease. in taste for vapid and
/ffvolous excitement and in the
0lminution of the birthrate. diminu-
Ion so great that IL 1t continues Tor
The next century all the more hisniy
<ciyilized people will be stationary.
4 He closed a discussion OF modern
*oocial problems, in which he attacked
<nociaiism. with the statement that
|]though hardness OF heart Is an evil,
<1t Is no greater than softness OF
head"
~The ethnic makeup of our people is
y GIowly changing, so that constantly
& The race tends to become more ana
more akin TO that Of those Americans
y mfho. like myself. are of the old stock
f hut not mainly of English stock. Yet
I think that. as time goes by, mutual
& respect. understanding and sympathy
e among the English speaking peoples
grow greater and not less. Common
& heirship in the things OF the spirit
makes closer bond than common
;. heirship In the things OF the body.
Luxury Source of Danger.
1--WE must realize thar the growth
4of soft luxury after II has reached
Ecertain point becomes natical danger
batenf To ALI Again II needs bur little
|6f the vision OF seer to foreteli What
must happen In any community II tne
average woman ceases 10 become the
mother OF a family OF healthy chill
zGren, II the average man loses the
Will and the power TO work up To old
knxc and 10 fight whenever the need
gnrlses. II the homely commonplace
661rtues die cut, ten the nation has
lost what no material prosperity will
IoRset.
-Bm there are plenty of other phe-
}ncmena wsloily or partially inexpilra'
|b1e. II is easy to see why Rome trend
:1d downward when great siaye-lilled
1erms spread over what had once been
~ countryside OF peasant proprietors,
:xxnen greed and sersuality ate like
Iocids into the fiber of the upper
SElneses. The fall Of Rome before the
barbarians is au.te sufficiently cx-
-n1nined by the mere fact that the aver
NC citizen had lost the fighting edge
Ian essential even under despotism
<hnd therefore far more essential in
Tree self-governing communities such
~ the English speaking peoples OF TO-
>6ay
Every modern civilized nation has
many terrible problems 10 solve which
arise from the self-consciousness of
10th poverty aud riches. II is revolt
|1nx 10 every principle OF justice %
ktve to the lazy, the vicious. or even
The feeble and dull witted, reward
which Is really the robbery of what
brayer. wiser. ADLER men have earned.
The only effective way TO help a man
~ to help him to help himself: and
the worst lesson TO teach him Is that
II Ne can be permanently helped at the
'expense of some one else. True I'D
erty shows itself 10 best advantage IN
protecting the rights OF others. AM
especially of minorities. Privilege
should not be tolerated because IL -
20 the advantage OF a minority, nor
yet because II Is to the advantage OF
~ majority. No doctrinaire theories
7of vested rights OF freedom OF con-
tract can stand in the way OF our
lcutting out abuses from the body
I, polite. Just as little can we afford
4 to follow the doctrinaries OF an i'm
Z Dosstble--and incidentally of a highly
-. "a a. fs-ol
80 destroying individual rights. includ-
ing property rights and the family
! would destroy the two chief agents 10
B lhe advance of mankind. and the two
<Chfef reasons why either the advance
|0r the preservation of mankind is
worth while
TN dealing with all these social
4 prOblems, with the intimate relations
OF the family, with wealth in private
md business use. with labor. with
poverty, the one prime necessity Is
20 remember that though hardness Of
4 heart Is a great evil. IL Is no greater
\ m evil than softness of head.
Must Be Ready.
The other type OF duty Is inter
/. national. the duty owed by one nation
20 another. | hold that the laws of
morality which should govern in
dtviduals are just as binding concern.
inE nations. The application must be
y different because the Individual can
Depend for his rights upon the courts,
backed by the police power OF the
3 tate. while the nation can depend
on nothing of the kind Therefore
ae things are now. II is the highest
duty of the most advanced and freest
4 peoples to keep themselves in a state
of readiness. II would be foolish in
/, deed TO pay heed TO the unwIse per
tons who desire disarmament to be
begun by the very peoples who. of ali
others, should not be left helpless be
fore any possible foe. But We must
reprobate quite as strongly aggres
sion and iniQuity at the expense OF
. the weak. We should tolerate law
3cssness and wickedness neither BY