The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28
Points Out the Way to Reach
the Front Rank.
FIRST, INTELLIGENCE.
But This Is Useless without an
Upright Heart.
Says an Honest Politician Is a
Good Thing.

Cairo, Egypt, March 2S-ColoneI
Roosevelt delivered ar address before
the students of the University Of Egypt
today. He was cordially received and
at the conclusion of his remarks there
was much applause.
The general opinion is that the speech
VIII have good effect on the country
generally. Mr.. Roosevelt on entering
the nan OF the university found it
crowded with Egyptians, officers, stud
ents and women. who began hand
clapping the moment he appeared.
Prince Ahmed Fouad, president CT the
university. and an uncle of the Khedive.
introduced Mr.. Roosevelt with a brief
speech in French.
Responding to the welcome Mr..
Roosevelt expressed his thanks, but
said his address was intended only for
the students of the university AS a
man who spoke frequently he warned
ms auditors to have nothing to do with
the man who did not make good his
words by acts.
The speakers reference to assassina-
ton by q student last month of Boutros
PaSha Ghali, premier and minister of
foreign affairs. as a calamity to Egypt
ana his denuncIations of the assassin
was received with great applause.
colonel Roosevelt. in part said:
Elements of Success.
No man may reach the front rank
VINO is not intelligent and not trained
with intelligence. Mere intelligence it,
self is worse than useless unless it is
guided by an upright heart with
strength and courage behind it. Nor
anty, decency, clean living, courage,
manliness and self respect are more
important than mental subtlety. An
honest, courageous and far-sighted
politician is good thing in any coun-
try where his usefulness depends chiefly
Upon his ability to express the wishes
OF the population in which the popula-
ton forms only a fragment of the Lead
D, WhAra hrref
the land owner, the engineer, the man
or technical acknowledgement of a hun
cred different pursuits-represent the
average type of leadership.
No people have permanently
amounted to anything whose only
public leaders were clerks. politicians
and lawyers. Remember always that
the securing of a substantial educa-
ton, whether by group of indfvid-
uals or people, is attained only by
progress as a unit. You can no more
make man really educated by giving
him a certain curriculum of studies
than you can make a people fit for
by giving them a pa
per 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 itself so as to fulfill the duties of
self government is not a matter of a
decade or two, but of generations.
Self Government.
some FOOLISH persons believe that
the granting of a paper constitution,
prefaced by some high sounding de-
clarations, in itself confers the power
of self government. This was never
so. Nobody can give a people self
government, any more than it is DOS
sible to give an individual self help
You know the old Arab proverb, God
helps those who help themselves In
the long run the only permanent way
for the individual to be helped is to
help himself. This is one of the
things your university should incul-
cate.
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 1t is only too
easy to misuse. The slow, steady and
resolute development of these sub
stantial qualities-love. Justice, fair
play, the spirit of self-reliance and
moderation-alone will enable a peo-
pie to govern themselves. In the
long, tedious and absolutely essential