Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-29
ROOSEVELT At UNIVERSITY
Former President Makes Extended
Address to Students at Cairo.
sELF-GovERNMEET Is DISCUSSED
TraininG of Nation Requires Genera-
tiOns and Liberty Cannot BE Com
ferred by Paper Consultations
Murders Condemned.

CAIRO, Egypt, March 2s-Coionei Roose-
welt delivered an address before the stu
dents OF the University OF Egypt today.
He was cordially received and at the con-
olusion OF his remarks there was much
applause.
The general opinion Is that the speech
viii have a good effect upon the country
generally. Mr.. Roosevelt upon entering the
hail. found 1t crowded with Egyptians, Of
ficers students and women, who began
hand clapping the moment he appeared.
Prince Ahmed Fouad, president of the
university and an uncle of the khedive,
introduced Mr. Roosevelt with a brief
speech in French. 81
Responding to the welcome Mr.. Roose-
veit expressed his thanks, but said his
address as,intended only for the students
of the university. AS a man who spoke
frequently, he warned his auditors to have
nothing to do with the man who did not
make good his words by acts
The speakers reference to assassination
by student last month of Boutros Pasha
Ghali premier and minister of foreign
affairs was a calamity to Egypt, and his
denunciations Of the assassin was received
with great applause.
Colonel ROOseveIt'a Address.
Colonel Roosevelt in his address, said in
part:
mo man may reach the front rank who
is not intelligent and not trained with in
teiligence. Mere intelligence itself is worse
than useless unless II is guided by an up
right heart with strength and courage be-
hind It. Morality, decency. clean living,
/
more important than mental subtlety An
horest, courageous and far-sighted poll
tician is a good thing in any country where
his usefulness depends chiefly on his ability
to express the wishes of the population in
which the politician forms only fragment
of the leadership and where the business
man, the land owner, the engineer the man
of technical knowledge, men of hundred
different pursuits, represent the average
type Of leadership.
Real Leaders Are Needed.
mo people have permanently amounted
to anything whose only public leaders were
clerks, politicians and lawyers. Remember
always that the securing Of substantial
| education, whether by a group of indi-
viduals or a people. is attained only by
progress as a unit You can no more make
a man really educated by giving him GER
tain curriculum of studies than you can
make a people fit for self-government by
giving them paper constitution. The
| training OF an Individual in order to fit him
to do good work in the world is a matter
of years, and the training of a nation to
fit It successfully to fulfil the duties Of
| self-government is not a matter of de-
cade or two, but of generations.
PAPER Constitutions.
"Some foolish persons believe that the
granting of a paper constitution, prefaced
| by some high sounding declarations, In it.
self confers the power OF self-government
J This was never so. Nobody can give people
| selfgovernment any. more than it is possi-
| BILE to give an Individual self-help. You
know theT old Arab proverb, s'tGod helps
those who, help themselves In the long
run, the only permanent way for the in
dividual to be helped is to help himself
This is one of the things your university
should inculcate.
Man is slow in the growth of character
The final determining factor in the problem
with a people-any people possessed Of the
essential qualities-is to show no haste in
grasping power, which It is only too easy
to misuse. The slow. steady and resolute
development OF those substantial qualities
love, justice, fairplay, the spirit of self
reliance and moderation-alone will enable
a people to govern themselves.
TN the long, tedious and absolutely es-
sential process, believe your university
takes an important part. Do not forget the
old Arab proverb, God is with the patient,
II they know how to watt This spirit
condemns every lawless act. evil, envy and
hatred and above all, hatred based on re-
lgion or races
| All Assassins Condemned.
"All good men. all men Of every nation
expressibly shocked by the assassination Of
Boutros Pacha Ghali It was a greater
calamity to Egypt than a wrong to the in
dividual himself. The type of man that
turns assassin is the type possessing all
the qualities which ALLEVIATE him from good
citizenship; the type producing poor SOL
diers in time of war and worse citizens in
time of peace. Such q man stands on the
pinnacle Of evil and infamy Those apoIog-
izing for or condoning his act by word or
! deed, directly or indirectly encouraging
such an act In advance or defending IL after
| ward occupy the same bad emlnence. 1t
| is Of no consequence whether the assassin
is Moslem or Christian or with no creed, or
| whether the crime was committed In
political strife or Industrial warfare The
rich mans hired act, performed by a poor
man, whether committed with the purpose
OF preserving order or OF obtaining liberty
| is equally abhorrent In the eye of all
decent men and in the long run equally
damaging to every cause the ASSASSIN pro-
| Pesses %