Show l OXFORD CONFERS A DEGREE UPON THEODORE ROOSEVELT Former President Pres dent Delivers Dez e wars vers Ro Romanes Romanes 0 manes Lecture at Ancient Seat eat o of Learning OXFORD O S RFORD Eng June 7 Oxford today conferred upon Theodore Roosevelt v f the honorary degree of Doctor of Law The ceremony took place in the nian theatre where for three centuries and more it has been boen the custom to hold the exercises the annual commemoration of the foun der and other official o assemblies but Mr reception surpassed in enthusiasm anything within the memory of ot tho the oldest Ills His Romanes lecture which dealt with Biological Analogies In History proved to be a tL powerful exposition of all the strange analogies as tho the lec ice lecturer lecturer tuner himself expressed It In the phenomena phe phenomena phenomena of ot life lite and death of or birth growth and change chane between those thaw physical groups of animal life which we designate as species forms form races and the tho highly complex and composite c entIties entitles which rise rille before our minds when we speak of or nations and civilization civilization tion Toward the close Mr Sir Roo voice failed tailed and he watt was all obliged to I leave undelivered a II portion of ot his hili pre prepared prepared prepared pared lecture But Dut before b fere lin JH withdrew from the tho platform he ho had bad won the great audience that gathered In the theatre by his hl vigorous rigorous and lind force forceful forceful forceful ful gestures being cheered repeatedly at various stages of at his hili address Even the usually solemn dons were carried away and stood up and Joined In 10 tho hurrahs of the younger element Lord Curzon of ot chancel lor of Oxford university in introducing IntroducIng ing lug the newly created D C L I who appeared for tor the first t time In th the red robes rob 8 of the doctorate spoke of Mr Roosevelt ns as a n ruler of ot men mentho tho most conspicuous con figure In America since Abraham Lincoln After ACter touching on the former I dents many achievements the Ute chant chanc chantl 1 l lor said alu Although he be Is III now new taking It is III und male that such a n nan Iran an should long be out of public life lite Following the lecture Jr Roo t v it and lib Americans American Including Rhodes Rhode scholars lI lunched lunche f io l together th r r F P V Griffiths presided and an introduced t M n 1 e nt who expressed m d i the appreciation of or all American Americans for fr the th cr Er jt t gift gUt of or Cecil C II Rhodes and for tor the hos hs of to Ambassador Amba ador Whitelaw n RAid Rohl M proposed ed a toast to the king kiD and to the T Tf i 1 dent cEnt Speeches were made mal by Rhodes Rhode scholars scholar This e Mr otT ar T Mrs Roosevelt dined l with tutu ith tb tho the tiro IO chancellor of ot the university and an r re at his hili residence for the th night nigh n 12 h Nine cabins have bave been engaged en a fd f fr r the ho Roosevelt party on the tb steamer t r Auguste Victoria which will sail lIali from Southampton June 10 19 for Now New 1 ow York Mr Mv h Address Alre Colonel Roosevelt noo ovelt said Mid Rome nom t fell n 11 from OH ant attack without only becan A Athe the ills within her hOt own borders border bord MI had grown Incurable What In is true t r mir lr I country my mv hearers In is true tru of or m me wn wo white while WI ve we l bO be e liliant iga t foes from wih without u ut yet t wr we W red 1 rd r e r really fear them so 80 l I erg rg g ns as fl we safe Continued on OD Page Two OXFORD CONFERS A DEGREE UPON COl ROOSEVELT Continued From Page Pace One Oae guard ourselves against the enemies within o tr own households and these theae enemies are our own passions and fol follies follies follies lies Free peoples can escape being mastered by others only by being able to D themselves We Ve Americans and you people of or the British Isles alike need ever to keep In mind that among tho many qualities Indispensable ble to the success of a great democracy cy and second only to a high and stern sense of duty of o moral obligation are and You Tou my hosts and I may not agree in all allour allour allour our views some of you xou would think me mea mea a very radical democrat as for tile the matter of that thaI I 1 am and my theory of Imperialism would probably suit the as little as BS It would suit a certain typo of ot Imperialists But there are aro some somo points points on which we e must all agree a ree If IC we wo think soundly The precise form of ot government democratic or otherwise In Is tho Instrument the tool with which we work It Is important to have a good tool No implement can over ever overtake overtake take the plate place of the guiding Intelli Intelligence genco gence that wields It IL A very bad tool will ruin the Ule work of ot the best man but a good tool In bad hands Is no better botter In Tn the tho last lut analysis the all aU Important factor In national greatness Is national character Tiro Great Grent Questions There are questions that we of the great groat civilized nations are ever tempt tempted ed to ask of the future futuro Is our time of growth drawing to an end Arc Aro we as nations soon to como come under the rule of that great law of death which is III ItsoU but a part of the tho great law of oC life Ufe None can an telL Forces that we ve oan can see and other forces that are hid hidden hidden hidden den or that can tan but dimly be apprehended apprehended heRded areat are at work all nil around us both for good and for evil Tho The growth In luxury in love of ease In taste for vapid and frivolous excitement Is i both evident evident and unhealthy The mr may n omi ominous ominous ominous sign is III the diminution of fi it birth birthrate birthrate birthrate rate and the rate rale ra e of natural Increase now to a larger lar er or lesser leuer degree shared by most of the civilized nations of central and western Europe of America and Australia a diminution so great that If It continues s for ih the J next century at the rate which has haa ob obtained obtained obtained for the last lost years sears all IU the tho more moro highly ly civilized peoples will bo be stationary or elso else have begun I to go backward In hn in population while many of or them will bavo havo already gone gon very far backward There is much that should give us concern for the future But nut there is much also which should give us 13 hope No man is more apt aut to be bo mistaken than tho the prophet of ot evil After Arter the French revolution of 1830 I tho the guess that all civilization was about to go g down with a crash that we were all about to share abate the tile fall of third and fourth century Home Rome Romea a respectable but painfully over oer overworked overworked worked comparison The fears once expressed by the tho followers foll of ot Malthus Mai thus as to tho the future of tho the world have havo proved groundless as regards the civilized civilized portion of tho world it is strange indeed to look belt back lt at a Carlyle prophecies ecles of some seventy years ago and then think of the teeming life uro of achievement the tho life of conquest of oC every ev every every ery kind and of oC noble effort crowned by success which has been ours oura for the th two generations since he ho complained to high heaven that all an tho the tales tale haa has been told and all tho songs sons sung and that all the deeds really worth doing had been done I believe with all my heart that a L great future fu ure remains for tor forus fo fous us but Whether it does or docs does not our duty Is fa not altered However the battle may go so the soldier worthy of the name will with utmost vigor do dohis dohis dohis his allotted task and bear himself as valiantly in defeat as in victory Come what will wo we belong to peoples who have not yielded to the tho craven fear tear of being great greal In the ages that have bae gone by the tho great nations the nations na nations nations that have expanded e and that have havo played a mighty part In the world have in the end grown old and weak weakened weakened weakened ened and vanished but BO so have the nations na nations nations whoso whose only thought was to avoid all danger all effort who would risk nothing and who therefore gained nothing In the tho end the same samo fate may overwhelm all alike but the memory of the tho one ono type perishes with It IL while the other leaves Its mark deep on the history of oC all the future futuro of mankind Mae laT Ho Do Dom Born Again galnA A nation that seemingly dies may be born again and even eon though in the physical sense it die utterly it may mo moet yet et hand down a history of heroic achievement and for all time to come may profoundly influence the nations that arise in its Ita by the impress of or what it has done Best Beet of all is la it to do our part well and at the same Mme time Ume to see our blood live young and ane vital In men and women fit tit to take up the che task as we lay it down for so shall snail our seed Inherit tho the earth But nut If this which is s best bust is III dented denied us then at least it Is IB ours to remember that If wo choose we can be torchbearers as our fathers wore were before us The rho torch has hasteen been teen handed on from nation to nation from civilization to civilization throughout all recorded time Ume from the dim years before history dawned down downto to the blazing splendor pf of this teeming century of ours It dropped the tho hand of or the coward and the sluggard of the tho man wrapped In luxury or love of or case cose the man whose whoso soul was eaton eaten away by It has been beon kept alight only by those who wore were mighty of heart and cunning of or hand What they worked at al providing it was wall worth doing at nt all was of lose less matter mattor than how ho they tey worked whether in the realm of the mind or the realm of o the body If their work was good If it what they achieved ved was of substance then high success was really theirs Advance In la Ethical Standards Standard While freely admitting all alt of our follies Collies and weaknesses of or today it is yet mere mero perversity to refuse refu o to realize the Incredible advance that has been made In ethical standards I 1 do not be believe believe believe lieve that there is Js the slightest neoe necee necessary sary connection between any weaken weakening V tag ing of virile force and this advance in inthe InUI inthe the UI moral standard this growth of the sense nse of obligation to ones one neighbor and of reluctance to do that neighbor wrong Wo We need have scant patience with that silly cynicism woh wh insists that kindliness of character only ac no accompanies companies weakness of character On the contrary Just as in private life many of the tho men of strongest character charac character character ter are the very men of loftiest and meet most exalted morality so I 1 believe that In national life as the ages a es go by we wean shall an find that the permanent national types will more moro and more tend towards toward those these tho o In which while tho the Intellect stands high character stands higher In which rugged strength and courage rugged capacity to resist wrongful ag aggression aggression by others will go o hand in hand with a lofty lorty scorn corn of doing wrong to te t others This Is the type of of Hampden of Washington and Lin Lincoln Lincoln Lincoln coln These were wore as good men and die dis disinterested dl interested and unselfish men mono as ever served a state tate and they were also as strong men as ever founded or saved laved laveda a state Surely such examples prove provo that there thore In is nothing Utopian In our effort to combine Justice and in the same nation The really ugh nigh civilizations must themselves them elves supply the antidote to the th ee and love lave IO of ot ease oase which they tend to pro produce duce duee Difficult Problem m to Solve Every modern civilized nation has many and terrible problems to solve within Its own borders problems that arise not merely from Juxtaposition of or poverty and riches but especially from tho ho of both poverty and riches Each nation must deal with those thOle matters in Its own fashion and yet the spirit In which the problem Is IB approached must ever be fundamentally tho same feame It must mut bo be boa bea a spirit of broad humanity of brother t i t 1 t I I i ly kindness of acceptance of I one for each and each for all alland I tand and at the same time a spirit as ro re j t mote as the poles from every form of i weakness and sentimentality As M in I 11 war to pardon the coward is to do cruel wrong rong to tho the brave man whose whoso life Ufe his cowardice Jeopardizes so in civil af fairS it is 18 revolting to every principle of or Justice to give to th the lazy the vicious or even the feeble and dull witted a reward which is really the tho robbery or of o what braver wiser abler men have earned The rhe only effective way to help any man is to help him to help himself and tho the worst lesson to teach him is that he can be perma permanently permanently permanently helped at the expense of someone some someone someone one else also True liberty shows itself to best bost advantage in prot Ung the rights of others and especially of ot minorities I Privilege should not I l tolerated be because because cause It Is Js to the adv Uge of a IL mi ml minority nor yet because it IB Is to the tho advantage of a majority No doctrinaire theories of vested rights rth ht or freedom of f contract can stand stand in the tho way of our ur cutting out abuses from tho the body bod politic Just as can wo we afford to o follow the tho doctrinaires of an Im and incidentally of a highly social revolution which in destroYing Individual rights Including property rights and the family would destroy the tho two chief agents a In the advance of mankind and the tho two to chief chlof reasons why either cither the advance or tho the preservation of mankind is lIS worth worthwhile worthwhile I while It Is an ovll evil and a dreadful thing lung to be callous to sorrow and suf b ring and blind to our duty to do all things nines possible for the betterment of social octal conditions But it Is an un unspeakably II foolish thing to strive for this this his betterment by means moans BO so tive Ive that they thuy would leavo leave no social conditions to better In dealing with all these social problems with the Inti Intimate Intimate Intimate mate relations of the family with wealth In private use and business use ulle with labor with poverty the one prime necessity Is to remember that though hardness or of f heart Is a 0 great evil it is no greater an evil than softness of head Special Untie Duties to o Perform But in addition to these problems the he most intimate and Important of or all which to a larger or less leas degree affect all tho the modern nations somewhat alike aUke we of the great groat nations that have hav ex Of that are now In complicated relations with one ono another and und with alien races have special problems ms and special duties of oC our own Yon You belong to a 0 nation which possesses the great grea greatest est eat empire upon which tho the sun has ever shone I belong to 0 a nation Is is trying on a scale hitherto unexampled uneXampled pled to work out the problems of oC government gov government government for of or and by the tho people while at the tho same doing the inter Intel international national duty of or a groat great power But there thore are certain problems which both buth bothof bothof of us have to solve and as to which our Standards should be the same The Tho Englishman the man of the British Isles in his various homes across the rhe theseas seas and the tho Americans American both at homo home and abroad are brought into contact with utterly alien peoples some with witha a |