Show BIG AUDIENCE IN SORBONNE Ca capants professors and students hear the ex presidents view vic wit on the responsibilities of the individual hits at race suicide in france paris april 23 savants savanis Sa professors end and students ot of the university Uni ty 0 parla paris crowded the assembly hall of tho the Gor Sar bonno this afternoon to hear col theodore roosevelt Hoos ovelt lecture on citizenship in a republic it was an appreciative precia tive audience and the lecturer was frequently applauded mr 1100 sevelt said foundations of our republic this athla was waa the roost most famous city of medieval med europe at a n time when no one dreamed that there was a new world to discover its services to the cause of human knowledge already stretched far back into the remote past at tho the time when my forefathers three centuries ago when among the sparse bands of trailers traders plowmen wood chop choppers pors and lisher folk who in a hard struggle with the iron iran unfriendliness ot of the indian haunted land wore laying tile tho faunda lions of what has now become tho the plant giant republic of the west to conquer a e continent a rient to tamo the tha shaggy roughness of wild nature means grim warfare and the generations engaged in it cannot keep still less add to the stores or of garnered wisdom which were therein and which are still in the hands bands of at their brethren who dwell in the old land to conquer the wilderness means to wrest victory from tile the same sama hostile forces farces with which mankind struggled in the immemorial in infancy of our race the primeval conditions roust be met by primeval qualities which tire aro incompatible with tho the retention of much that has been painfully acquirer acquired by humanity its as through the ages it has striven upward toward civilization tn in conditions so eo there can call be but a primitive culture building the higher life As aa the country grows its people who have won van success in so many I 1 lines I 1 lips turn back to try to recover tho the pos s sey slona of the mind and tile spirit which perforce their fathers throw threw aside tn fit order better to wager the first rough battles for the continent their children inherit the leaders of nettan acon grope their way diw afo times dimly sometimes clean sighted ly IY that the life of material rain gain whether for a nation or an individual la Is of value only as a foundation dation only is as there la Is added to it the abo uplift that comes from devotion to loftier ideals the tha now new life thus sought can in part pa e IAvelo developed ped afresh from what la Is round about in tile the new world but tt can be developed in full only by freely drawing upon the treasure louses of the old world upon tipon the tha treasures stored in tha ancient abodes of wisdom and learning such as aa tills this chero I 1 speak today it la Is a mistake talco for tiny any nation merely to copy another but it Is an oven even greater mistake it la Is a proof of weakness tit in any nation not to be anxious to learn from another and willing and sible to adapt that learning to the new national conditions and make icaco it fruitful and productive therein it Is for bs us of the now new world to sit at the feet of the tha gamaliel Garnal lel of the old then it we tia have io the right stuff in us we can show that paul faul in hla his turn can become a teacher as aa well as a scholar today I 1 shall speak to you on oil tho the subject of individual citizenship the one subject or of vital importance to you my hearers and to me and uly my countrymen because you and we are arc catl rons cons of great democratic republics A democratic republic such us as each of vur outs nn effort to realize re alliso lo in its full v bense e anso government by of and for the tha people represents tho the most moat il gigantic gantic cfall possible social experiments the tha som fraught with greatest possibilities alike for rood good rind for evil great lesson of france prance france has taught tunny many lessons lesson 4 to other ether nations surely ono one of tho the most important la is the lesson leason her whole history teaches that a high artistic and literary development Is compatible oom with notable leadership in arms arma and states craft the brilliant gallantry of the french soldier has haa for ninny many cen been proverbial and during these sumo saino centuries at every ourt bourt in europe tho the free masons ot of fashion lave have treated tho the li french rench tongue as aa their common speech while every artist at and man of letters and every man of science able to appreciate that roar mar instrument of at precision french prose lifts haa turned towards varda to france franca for old mil and inspiration how long the leadership in arnia arms and letters has lasted la Is curiously illustrated by tho the fact chat the earliest masterpiece in modern 1 tongue la is tho the splendid brench epic which tolls tells of dogim and nd the j ii r j iv i there Is need of a sound body and even more need of a sound mind hut but above mind and above body stands character the surn of those qualities which wo we mean when wo we speak of a mans force and courage of his good faith and sense of honor I 1 bellevo in exercise of tho the body always provided that wo we keep in mind that physical development la Is a moana and not an end I 1 believe of course in giving to all the people a 11 good education lint but ills hie education must contain much besides book learning in order to bo be really good goob we must over remember that no keenness and subtleness ot at intellect no polish no cleverness in any way mako make up tip for the lack of great solid qualities self belt restraint solf self mas maa tery common sense the power ot of accepting individual responsibility and yet of acting in conjunction with athas others courage and resolution there are tile tho qualities which mark a masterful gerful people without them no people can control itself or save itself from being controlled front from the outside I 1 speak to a brilliant assemblage I 1 speak in a 11 great university which represents the flower of the highest intellectual development I 1 pay all homage to intellect rind and to elaborate and specialized training of the intellect and yet I 1 know I 1 shall have bavo the ass assent rit ot of all you present when I 1 add that more important still are the commonplace mon man place every everyday day qualities rind and virtues the evils eella of sterility in the next place the good man should he be both a strong and a bravo brave man inar that Is lie he should be ablo able to fight lie he should be able to servo serve his country as aa a soldier it if the need arises there are arc well meaning philosophers who declaim against tile tho unrighteous ress of war thoy they are right only they lay all their emphasis hasla upon tile tho tin unrighteousness righteousness war la Is n dreadful thing and unjust war to Is n crime against humanity hut but it Is such a ca calme ime because it ft la in unjust not because it la is war the choice must ever bo be in favor ot of righteousness and this hla whether vh other the alternative be peace or whether the alternative bo be war the question must not be merely Is there to lie be pence or war ar tho the question must bo be Is the right to prevail are the great laws of righteousness once more to be ba fulfilled and the answer front from a strong and virile people must be ys yes whatever the cost every honorable effort should always bo be made by the tha individual in private ufa life to kap out of 0 a brawl to keep out bot respecting individual no self respecting nation can or ought to submit to wrong finally even more important than ability to work oven even more important than ability to fight at need Is it to remember that tho the chief of blessin blessings gt for any nation Is that it shall lo lafee ave its ita seed to inherit the land it was the crown of blessings in biblical times and it Is the lie crown ot of blessings now the greatest of all curses Is the curse of sterility ond and the severest of nil all condemnations condemnation a should bo be that visited upon wilful sterility tho the first pa es seu tialIn in any civilization Is that tho the wan man and the woman shall bo be father and mother of healthy children so that tho this race shall increase and not decrease ikc rense it this Is not so eo tf it through no fault or of society there theio Is s failure to increase it Is 0 greit great misfortune it the failure la Is duo dun to deliberate and fault then it Is not merely a misfortune it Is one of 0 those crimes of ease case ani anc self indulgence of shrink ing front from pain and effort anil and risk which in tho the long run nature punishes puns es morn more heavily than any other idle achievements if we ft 0 of tile the great republics if we tho the free aco people who claim to havo have emancipated ourselves from tho the ahral doro doin of 0 wrong rind and error bring down on our heads the urse curse that comes upon tile tho wilfully barren then it will lie be an all idle waste of breath to pr prattle a me of our to boast of all that we havo have done no refinement ot of life no jig delicacy ot at taste no material tia no sordid heaping up of rt l chesno sensuous art arid literature can in any way earn corn prin pronsato sato for or the loss of the great fundamental virtues and of the great virtues tho the greatest la Is the races power to perpetuate the race hut but it II a mans efficiency la Is not gul led ard and regulated by b a moral fonse then tile the inore lie ho Is the worse lie Is B tile the more dangerous to the body politic courage intellect all tile the masterful qualities servo but to make a n man more evil it they are used merely for that mans own advancement with brutal indifference to too tile rights of others it speaks III for the corn com II if the community worships worship those these qualities 41 and treat mair pos seasons as heroes regardless ot or cheth or cr tile hie qualities are used rightly or wrongly it makes no difference as to the precise way in which this sinister efficiency la Is shown it makes no dil difference terence whether such a mans force astray themselves ni selven tit in the maker r or politician chef or r orator journalist or kiy leader eader if tho the man works tor for evil then the more successful he be Is tho the more he should be despised and con damned by all upright and farseeing men to judge a man merely by success Is an abhorrent wrong and it if tho the people at largo large habitually so eo judge men if they grow to condone wickedness because the wicked man triumphs they show chow their inability to understand that tn in the last analysis tree free institutions rest upon the character of citizenship and that by such admiration of evil they provo prove themselves unfit for liberty the idea of true liberty the good citizen will demand liberty for himself and as a matter of pride lie he will see ece to it that others receive the liberty which lie ho thus claims as his own probably the best test of true love of liberty in any country Is the way in which minorities arit treated in that country not only should there be complete liberty in matters of religion and opinion but complete liberty for each man to load lend his life as aa he desires provided only that in so eo doing lie he does not wrong his neighbor persecution Is bad because it Is persecution rind inid without reference to which side happens at the moment fo to be the persecutor and which the persecuted class clasa hatred to Is bad in just the same way and without any regard to tho the individual who at a given time substitutes loyalty to a class for loyalty to tho the nation or substitutes atit utes hatred of men because they happen to come tn in a certain social category for judgment awarded them according to their conduct remember ber always that the same measure of condemnation should be extended to the arrogance which would look down upon or crush any man because ho he is poor and to tile envy and hatred which vilich would destroy ft a matt man because he Is wealthy tho the overbearing brutality of the man of wealth or power and tho the envious and hateful malice mailco directed against wealth or rower power aro are really at root merely different manifestations fes fe of the same quality merely the two sides of tho the same shield tile tho man who it if born barn to wealth and power exploits and ruins his less 1083 fortunate brethren Is at heart the same as tho the greedy and violent dema gogue who excites those who have rot property to plunder those who have of one man in especial beyond anyone else tile tho citizens of 0 a republic should shoula beware and that Is of tile the roan man who appeals to them to support him on th the ground that ho he Is hostile to other citizens of the republic that he will secure for those who elect him in one shape or another profit at tho the expense of other citizens of the republic it makes no difference whether whether he ha appeals to class hatred or 0 clans Int oreal tho man who makes such an appeal should always be presumed to make it for tho the sako of furthering his own interest the very thing that an intelligent and self respecting member of a democratic community should not do Is to reward any public man because that public man says he wilt get tho the private citizen something to which this private citizen Is not entitled or will gratify some emotion or ant moi tty ity which this lirly nto citizen ought not to possess it a public man tries to get your vote by saying that he wilt will do something wrong tit in your interest you can be absolutely certain that if ever it becomes worth auh hla his while ho he will do something wrong against your interest france and the th united states and now my host a word in part ing you yost and I 1 belong to the only two great republics among tho the great powers of the tha world the ancient friendship between france rind tho the united states has haa been on tho the whole it a si ban ero and disinterested friendship A calamity to you would he be a sorrow to us but it would be more than that in the seething turmoil of at tho history of humanity certain nations stand out na as possessing a peculiar power or charm some special gift of beauty or wisdom of strength which puts puta them among the immortals which makes them rank forever with the lenders of mankind france fiance Is ono one of at the nations for har to sink would be a loss to all the world there ara ar certain lessons of 0 brilliance and of generous gallantry gallantly that she can ann teach bettor better than any of at her sister antl nations ons when tile the french peasantry sang gang ol of Mal halbrook malbrook Malbi brook ook it avas as to tell how the soul of this warrior toe foe took flight upward through th the e laurels he had won nearly seven centuries ago IN riols sart arl ting gitig of a urns time ot of dire disaster said that the realm of franco france was wai never so BO stricken that hat thero there were not left men who ho would valiantly fight tor for it yoa yea have had a great past I 1 believe that you will have a great future long iong may you carry yourselves proudly as citizens of a nation which bears a leading part in the te teaching a ching and uplifting of mankind |