The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-23
So Says Col. Roosevelt in Lec-
ture at the SOrbOnne.
A GOOD CITIZENSHIP.
That Is Requisite if Republics
Are to Endure.
Power to Work and to Fight at
Need Is Essential.

AQrll Zo--lncOQOEe Roosevelt
former president of the United States.
delivered his eagerly awaited lecture on
Citizenship in a Republic in the
Sorbonne this afternoon. His audience
was composed of all CT the members
of the French cabinet. students selected
| from the University of Paris, and many
distinguished guests, by whom the oc-
casion was regarded as the most I'm
! portant fe atUre of the distinguished
| Americans visit to France.
In the course OF his address Mr..
Roosevelt made reference to the subject
CT human rights and property rights in
the following paragraphs:
| MY position as regards the monied
| interests can be put in a few words.
| In every civilized society property
rights must be carefully safeguarded.
| Ordinarily and in the great majority or
| cases human rights and property rights
| are fundamentally and in the long run.
| Identical; but when il clearly appears
| that there is a real conflict between
them, human rights must have the up
per nand; property belongs to man and
| not man to property"
| According to the traditional custom
of the academy of moral and political
sciences, Theodore Roosevelt entered
without formal presentation.
Emile Boutroux. who presided, after
the customary routine business had
| been concluded, addressed the acad-
emy on the result of his observations.
made during his recent visit to the
United States. regarding the growth of
education there. NJ. Boutroux took
Colonel Roosevelt's ideal as the high
est type of man which American edu-
cation sought to produce, quoting fire.
quently Roosevelt's own words in the
exposition of his theme.
From the doctrine that a man who
accomplished nothing and INDUCES
only in criticism is a parasite meriting
only scorn, the speaker evolved Roose-
velt's doctrine that man is born for
faction. to work and to struggle-in
other words, for the strenuous life. He
said the aim of the American ideals
as enunciated by Roosevelt was the de-
velopment of an American soul, re
gardless of the differences of politics
or religion.
While America was open to all COM
ers, declared NJ. Boutroux, 1t recog-
nized as true citizens only those who
were. entirely and exclusively Ameri-
cans in heart and aspiration. The
American spirit. he said. consists of
love of national independence, faith
in the power of honest effort respect
for human dignity and religious toler-
alton. He dwelt particularly upon
Roosevelt's theory regarding the duty
of the rich which, he said substituted
richesse oblige for noblesse oblige.
Continuing M. Boutroux said that
society does not owe happiness to all
persons. but owes to all the possibility
of an honest. comfortable life. The
man without fortune should first work
for his family, and with a fortune he
should work for the public good. To
devote life to amassing gold was
ignoble. 1t was necessary to teach all
the doctrine of work; to men of for
tune the doctrine of work without re-
muneration.
Such, said M. Boutroux. were the
recognizes as its most authoritative
representative and who's return would
be filled with spontaneous and uni
Versal enthusiasm.
''It is our duty,'' said NJ. Routroux,
in conclusion, "to consider whether we
can not learn a lesson from contem-
poraneous America"
Nj. Liard's Introduction.
The speech of NJ. Lard. vice rector
of the University of Paris, in introduc-
After thanking the American ex-presi-
dent for accepting the invitation of the
university, NJ. Lard said the university
particularly wished its students to hear
that of the man who speaks by action
as we'll as words, giving to the world
counselS of justice and energy-justice
as the end and energy as the means"
Lizard said:
You denounce the idle and the use
less but you combat also the mischief
makers and the selfish. You do not
separate morality from politics, nor
right from force You are a rough SOL
der and pacific thinker man of ac-
tion, a preacher of high virtue and a
living example Of the virtues You
preach
America. the speaker continued. rec
ogn'zed in Roosevelt the embodiment
of its noblest traits. but in his journey
across Europe the nations perceived IN
him something more-the representa-
tive Of a larger ideal than that of coun-
try or of our race-the champion OF
right and justice among the peoples
NJ Lizard said in conclusion:
Like cher Americans who have
come t. address us you viii see that
France and America are sisters. not
only by common tradition, but also by
ths community of many ideas and
sentiments guiding them in the path
ways of the future"
Colonel RooseveIts Address.
Colonel Roosevelt spoke as follows:
Strange and impressive associations
rise in the mind of a man from the
New World who speaks before this au-
gust body in this ancient institution Of
learning. Before his eyes pass the
shadows of mighty kings and warlil1e
mobiles. of great masters OF law and
theology: through the shining dust Of
the dead centuries he sees crowded
figures that tell of the power and learn
ing and sp1endor Of times gone by; and
he sees also the innumerable host OF
humble students to whom clerkship
meant emancipation. to whom 1t was
wellnigh the only outlet from the dark
fhraldora of the Middle Ages.