Show DIMES Of CITIZEN Colonel Roosevelt Lectures on This Subject in Paris BIG AUDIENCE IN SORBONNE I Savants Professors and Students Hear the ExPresidents Views on the Responsibilities of the Individual Individ-ual Hits at Race Suicide in France Paris April 23 Savanta professors and Undents of tho University of Paris crowded the assembly hall of the Sorbonno this afternoon to hear Col Theodore Roosevelt lecture on Cltl zennhlp In I a Republic It was nn appreciative ap-preciative audience and tho lecturer wan frequently applauded Mr Roosovolt Raid Foundations of Our Republic This was the moat famous tinlvcr1 city of medieval Europe at n time when no ono drcnmcd that there was a new world to discover Its services to the cause of human knowledge already al-ready stretched far back Into the remote past at the time when my forefathers fore-fathers throe centuries ngo when among the sparse bands of traders plowmen wood choppers and fisher folk who In n hard Rtriggowith 1 tho Iron unfriendliness of the Indian haunted land were laying the foundations founda-tions of what has now become the giant republic of the west To conquer con-quer n continent to tame tho shaggy roughness of wild nature means grim warfare and the generations engaged I In It cannot keep still less add to ho stores of garnered wisdom which wore therein and which are still In ho hands of their brethren who dwell In the old land To conquer tho wilderness means to wrest victory from tho same hostile forces with which mankind struggled In tho Immemorial Im-memorial Infancy of our race Tho primeval conditions must bo met by primeval qualities which are Incom pats ilo with tho retention of much that has been painfully acquired by humanity as through the ages It hits striven upward toward civilization In conditions so primitive there can bo but a primitive culture Building the Higher Life AH tho country grows Us people who have won success In so many lines turn hack to try to recover the possessions pos-sessions of the mind and tho spirit which perforce their fathers threw aside In order better to wager the first rough battles for tho continent their children Inherit Tho leaders of thoitgbt and of action grope their way forward to a new life realizing some tlinoo dimly sometimes clearsighted ly that thu life of material gain whether for a nation or an Individual Is of value only an a foundation only as there Is added to It the uplift that comes from devotion to loftier Ideals l Tho now life thus sought can In part bo developed afresh from what Is round about In tho now world but It can bo developed In full only by freely drawing upon tho treasure houses of tho old world upon tho treasures stored In tho ancient abodes of wisdom and learning such as this where 1 speak today It Is a mistake for any nation merely to copy another but It Is an even greater mistake It Is a proof of weakness weak-ness In any nation not to bo anxious to learn from another and willing and nblo to adapt that learning to the now national conditions and make It fruit ful and productive therein It Is for us of tho now world to sit at the feet of tho Gamaliel of the old then If we have the right stuff In us wo can show that Paul In his turn can become a teacher as well as a scholar Today I shall speak to you on tho subject of Individual citizenship the ono subject of vital Importance to you my hearers and to mo and my coun trymen because you and we are cltl tens of great democratic republics A democratic republic such as each of oursan effort to realize In Its full sense government by of and for the people represents tho most gigantic of all possible social experiments tho ono fraught with greatest possibilities alike for good and for evil Great Lesson of France France has taught many lessons to other nations surely ono of the most Important Is tho lesson her whole hIstory his-tory teaches that a high artistic and literary development Is compatible with notable leadership In arms and itntescrnft The brilliant gallantry of the French soldier has for many centuries cen-turies been proverbial and during theso same centuries at every court In Europe tho free masons of fashion have treated the French tongue as their common speech while every art ist and man of letters and every man of science able to appreciate that marvelous mar-velous Instrument of precision French I prose has turned towards France for lId and Inspiration How long the leadership lead-ership In arms and letters has lasted Is curiously Illustrated by the fact that the earliest masterpiece In modern tongue Is tho splendid French epic which tells of Rolands doom and the vengeance of Charlemagne when the lords of the Frnnklsb host wore stricken at Roncesvallcs Need of Individual Character Let those who have keep let those who have not strive to attain a high standard of cultivation and scholarship scholar-ship Yet let us remember that these stand second to certain other things There Is need of n sound body and even more need of a sound mind nut above mind and above body stands character tile sum of those qualities which we mean when we speak of a mans force and courage of his good faith and sense of honor I believe In exercise of the body always provided that we keep In mind that physical development Is a means and not an end I believe of course In giving to all the people a good education nut the education must contain much besides be-sides booklearning In order to bo really good We must ever remember that no keenness and subtleness of Intellect no polish no cleverness In any way make up for the lack of great solid qualities selfrestraint self man I tery common sense the power of accepting ac-cepting Individual responsibility and yet of acting In conjunction with others Courage and resolution these are tho qualities which mark n masterful mas-terful people Without them no people peo-ple can control Itself or savo Itself from being controlled from the outside out-side I speak to a brilliant assemblage I speak In a great university which represents tho flower of the highest Intellectual development I pay all homage to Intellect and to elaborate and specialized training of the Intellect Intel-lect and yet I know I shall have the assent of all you present when I add that more Important still are tho commonplace com-monplace everyday qualities and vlr lass The Evils of Sterility In the next place the good man should be both a strong and n brave man that Is ho should be able to fight ho should bo able to servo his country as a soldier If f tho need arises There are well uleasling philosophers who declaim against the unrighteousness unrighteous-ness of war They are right only they lay all their emphasis upon tho unrighteousness War Is a dreadful thing and unjust war Is a crime against humanity But It Is such a crime because It Is unjust not because It Is war The cholco must ever be In favor of righteousness and this whether tho alternative bo peace or whether tho alternative be war The question must not ho merely Is thereto there-to be peace or war Tho question must be Is tho right to prevail Are the great laws of righteousness once more to be fulfilled And the answer from a strong and virile people must be Yes whatever tho cost Every honorable effort should always bo made by tho Individual In private life to keep cut of a brawl to keep out of trouble but no self respectlug Individual Indi-vidual no selfrespecting nation can or ought to submit to wrong Finally oven more Important than ability to worlc even more Important than ability to fight at need Is It to remember that the chief of blessings for any nation Is that It shall leave Its seed to Inherit the land It was tho crown of blessings In Biblical times and It Is the crown of blessings now Tho greatest of all curses Is tho curse of sterility and tho severest of all condemnations should bo that visited upon wilful sterility The first essential es-sential In any civilization Is that tho man and tho woman shall be father and mother of healthy children so that tho race shall l Increase and not decrease If this Is not so If through no fault of society there Is failure to Increase It Is a great misfortune If the failure Is duo to deliberate and wilful fault then It Is not merely a misfortune It Is one of those crimes of case and selfindulgence of shrinking shrink-ing from pain and effort and risk which In the long run nature punishes more heavily than any other Idle Achievements If we of tho great republics If we the free people who claim to have emancipated ourselves from tho thral dom of wrong and error bring down on our heads tho curse that comes upon tho wilfully barren then It will be an die waste of breath to prattle of our achievements to boast of all that we have done No refinement of life no delicacy of taste no material progress no sordid heaping up of riches no sensuous development of art and literature can In any way compensate com-pensate for the loss of tho great fundamental virtues and of the great fundamental virtues the greatest Is the races power to perpetuate the race But It a mans efficiency Is not guided gui-ded and regulated by a moral sense then the more efficient he Is the worse he Is the more dangerous to the body politic Courage Intellect all tho masterful mas-terful qualities serve but to make a man more evil If they are used merely for that mans own advancement with brutal indifference to tho rights of others It speaks 111 for the community com-munity If tho community worships these qualities and treats their possessors pos-sessors as heroes regardless of whether wheth-er limo qualities are used rightly or wrongly It makes no difference as to tho precise way In which this sinister sinis-ter efficiency Is shown It makes no difference whether such a mans force I x tlnnnceUes In the j and ability betray of money maker or politician I career orator Journalist or popular I soldier or works for f evil I the man lar leader If clime nuccciBfiil 1 eis tho then the more I more he should be despised and condemned con-demned by nil upright and farseeing i i by sue merely judge man men To a I wrong and ifl i abhorrent cess Is nn tho people nt large habitually so Judge j wicked men If they prow to condone I triumphs the wicked man ness because I to their Inability umphs they show understand that In the last analysis free Institutions rest upon the chnr 1 that by such acter of citizenship and I them admiration of evil they prove selves unfit for liberty The Idea of True Liberty The good citizen will demand liberty lib-erty for himself and as a matter of pride he will see to It that others receive re-ceive the liberty which he thus claims as his own Probably the best test of true love of liberty In any country Is the way In which minorities are treated In that country Not only should there be complete liberty In matters of religion and opinion but complete liberty for each man to lend his liCe as ho desires provided only that In so doing IIP does not wrong his neighbor Persecution Is bad because be-cause It Is persecution and without reference to which side happens at the moment to be the persecutor and which the persecuted Class hatred Is bad In just the same way and without any regard to tho Individual who at a given time substitutes loyalty to a class for loyalty to the nation or substitutes i sub-stitutes hatred of men because they happen to come In a certain social category for judgment awarded them according to their conduct Remember Remem-ber always that the same measure of condemnation should be extended to tho arrogance which would look down upon or crush any man because ho Is poor and to the envy and hatred which would destroy a man because ho Is wealthy Tho overbearing brutality bru-tality of tho man of wealth or power and tho envious and hateful malice directed di-rected against wealth or power are really at root merely different manifestations mani-festations of the same quality merely the two sides of the snme shield The man who If born to wealth and power exploits and ruins his less fortunate brethren Is at heart the same as the greedy and violent demagogue dema-gogue who excites those who have not property to plunder those who have Of ono man In especial beyond be-yond anyone else the citizens of a republic re-public should beware and that Is of tho man who appeals to them to support sup-port him on tho ground that he Is isb hostile to other citizens of the repub lie that he will secure for those who elect him In ono shape or another profit at the expense of other citizens of the republic It makes no difference differ-ence whether he appeals to class hatred or class Interest the man who makes such an appeal should always al-ways bo presumed to make It for tho sake of furthering his own Interest Tho very thing that an Intelligent and self respecling member of a democratic community should not do Is to reward any public man because that public man says he will get tho private citizen something to which this private citizen Is not entitled or will gratify some emotion or animosity animos-Ity which this private citizen ought not to possess I If a public man tries to get your vote by saying that he will do something some-thing wrong in your Interest you can bo absolutely certain that If ever It 1 becomes worth his while he will do something wrong against your interest Inter-est France and the United States And now my host a word In partIng part-Ing You and I belong to the only two great republics among the great powers of the world The ancient friendship between France and the United States has been on tho whole a sincere and disinterested friendship A calamity to you would be a sorrow to us nut It would be more than that In the seething turmoil of tho history of humanity certain nations stand out as possessing a peculiar power or charm some special gift ot beauty or wisdom of strength which puts them among the Immortals I which makes them rank forever with I the leaders of mankind France Is one of the nations For her to sink would be a loss to all tho world There arc certain lessons of brilliance and oC generous gallantry that sho can teach better than any of her sister nations When the French peasantry sang ot Slalhrook It was to tell how the soul of this warriorfoe took flight upward through tho laurels he had U no won Nn r ly seven centuries ago Frolssart writing wri-ting of a time of dire disaster said that tho realm of France was never so stricken that there were not left men who would valiantly fight for It You have had a great past I believe that you will have a great future Long may you carry yourselves proudly as II I citizens of a nation which bears n leAdlng part In tho teaching and up I lifting of mankind |