The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-05-12
PROGRESS Of Man
IS DISCUSSED BY
ROOSEVELT TO-DAY
Ex-president Spoke Before the
Berlin University and He
Showers Praises on the
German Race.
re PROUDLY BOASTEO
OF HIS DUTCH BLOOD

"WorId Movement" Discussed
and Reminds Them That
Great Men Spring from the
Poor People.
Berlin, May 12.-Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt delivered the following lee
ture on 1.-THE World Movement" at
the University Of Berlin:
very highly appreciate the chance
to address the University Of Berlin in
the year that closes its first centenary
Of existence. It Is difficult for you in
the old world fully to appreciate the
feelings Of a man who comes from
nation still In the making to a country
with an immemorial historic past, and
especially Is this the case when that
country, with its ancient past behind
II, yet looks with proud confidence
into the future and In the present
shows NIL the Astounding vigor of lusty
youth.
Such Is the case with Germany.
More than q thousand years have
passed since the Roman empire of tho
west became in fact German empire
To this ancient land. with its glori-
Gus past and splendid present. to this
land Of many memories and of eager
hopes, come from q young nation
which 10 by blood akin to and yet DIFF
1erent from each Of the great nations
q middle and western Europe, which
has inherited or acquired much from
each, but II changing and developing
every inheritance and acquisition into
something new and strange.
RI Come From the Duteh."
The German strain In our blood IL
large. for almost from the beginning
there has been large German element
among the successive waves Of new
Corners whose children's children have
been and are being fused into the
American nation. and l myself trace
my origin to that branch Of the Low
Dutch stock which raised Holland out
Of the North sea.
Moreover. we have taken from you
not only much Of the blood that runs
through our veins. but much Of the
thought that shapes our minds. For
generations American scholars have
fiocked to your universities. and, thanks
to the wise foresight Of his imperial
majesty. the present emperor. the In
innate and friendly connection be-
tween the two countries Is now In
every way closer than 1t has ever been
before.
Germany il pre-emlnently a country
IN which the world movement Of to-
day In all OF it, multitudinous aspects
= plainly visible. The life Of this uni
versity covers tho period during which
that movement has spread until it Is
felt throughout every continent. while
lts velocity has been constantly ac-
celebrating. SO that the face Of the
world has changed and IL now chang
ing 40 never before.
civiiixation's Records.
The nrst civilizations which left be.
hind them clear records rose In that
hoary historic past which geological
" Il part Of the immediate present
and which IL but spans length from
the present. even when compared only
with the length Of time that man has
lived on this planet. These first CIV
citations were those which rose in
Mesopotamia and the Nile valley some
six or eight thousand years ago.
AZ far as we can see. they were well
nigh independent centers OF cultural
and our knowledge is not
such at present a. to enable us to
connect either with the early cultural
movements in southwestern Europe on
the one hand or In India on the other
or with that Chinese civilization which
has been 30 profoundly affected by In
dian Influences.
Tho spread Of the European peoples
since the days Of Ferdinand the Cath. |
Ollie and Ivan the Terrible has been
across every sea and over every cont |
nent. In places the conquests have
been ethnic-that IL, there has been a |
new wandering Of the peoples. and
new commemorative have sprung up
IN which the people are entirely or |
mainly Of European blood.
This Is what happened Ia the tenn
perato and subtropical regions Of the |
western hemisphere. In Australia. In
portions Of northern Asia and south
ern Africa. In other places the con-
quest has been purely political. the
Europeans representing for the most |
part merely small caste Of soldiers
and administrators. as In most Of trop-
lcal Asia and Africa and In much OF |
tropical America. Finally here and |
there Instances occur where there has
been NO conquest ut all. but where an |
alien people are profoundly and radl.
rally changed by the mere impact of |
western civilization.
Japan's Wonderful Growth.
The most extraordinary instance OF
his. OF course, Is Japan. for Japan's
growth and change during the last
half century have been In many ways
The most striking phenomenon OF all
history. Intensely proud OF her past
history. intensely loyal to certain OF
her past traditions. che has vet with
Iln91s effort wrenched herself free
lfom al hampering ancient ties and II
nth z bound has taken her place
lmong the leading civilized nations 81
mankind.
trownins o. hopeful. every man Of