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Show r T Cabinet Officers, University Students and Savants Listen Intently While Ex; s President Gives His Views on Citizen ship in a Republic Include the will and the power to work, to light at need, and to have plenty of healthy children There are a few people In every country so born that they can lead lives of leisure. These fill a useful function if they make It evident that leisure does not mean Idleness. But the average man must earn his own livelihood. He 1 should be trained to do so, and ho i should be trained to feel that he oc- tuples a contemptible position If he j does not do so; that ho Is not an object of envy if be- is idle, at which- over end of the social scale he stands, but an object of contempt, an object of derision. I "In the next place, the good man should be both a strong and a brave j roan; that Is, be should be ablo tr I fight he should be able to serve his j country as a soldier if the need nrhes Tberp are well-meaning philosophers who declaim against the unrighteous-I unrighteous-I nes of war. They are right only if tbey lay all their r mnhasis upon th? unrighteousness. War Is a dreadful thing, and unjust war Is a, crlmo j against humanity. But It Is such a I ciimw because It Is unjust, not be-I be-I cause it is war. The choice mu3t I eer be In favor of righteousness, and ; this whether tho alternate e bo peace i or whether the alternative be war. j The question must not be merely, Is ; there to be peace or war? The qucR-i qucR-i tlon must be. Is the right to prevail? j Are the great laws of righteousness I once more to be fulfilled? And the answer from a strong and virile peo-I peo-I pie must be, 'Yes,' whateer tho cost j ' Finally, even more importaut than I ability to work, evn more important than ability to fight at need, is it to . remember that the chief of blessings for auy' nation Is I hat It shall leave I its seed to Inherit: tbej. land.--It war LOhe crown of" blessings la UiSlican times; and il l. the crown of Mess-i Ings now. The croatest of nil curses is the curse of sterility, and the severest se-verest of all condemnations should be that visited upon wilful sterility. Tbe first esienilal in any civilization is that the man and the woman shall be father and mother of healthy children, so that the race shall increase and not decrease. If this Is not so, If through no fault of the society there is failure fail-ure to increase, It is a great misfortune misfor-tune If the failure is due to deliberate delib-erate and wilful fault, then it is not merely a misfortune, It is one of those crimes of ease and self-indulgence, of sbriuklng from pain and effort and risk, which In the long run Xnture punishes more heavllj than any other. If we of the great republics, if we, the free people who claim to have emancipated ourselves from the thraldom thral-dom of wrong and error, bring down on our heads the curse that comes upon tho wilfully barren, then It will be an Idle waste of breath to prattle of our achievements, to bo:ist of all j that we have done Xo refinement of life, n.i delicacy of taste, no material progress, no sordid heaping up of riches, no sensuous development of art and literature, can in any way compensate for the loss of the great fundamental virtues; and of these great fundamental virtues, the gieat- ( Continued on Page Seven.) Taris, April 23. Theodore Roosevelt, Roose-velt, former president of the I'nlted St-ues, delivered bis eagerly awaited lecture on 'Citizenship in a Republic," In tbe Sorlonne this afternoon. His audience was composed of all of the members of tbe French cabinet, rtu-dents rtu-dents selected from the University of Paris, and many distinguished guests, bv whom the occasion was regarded ns the most important feature of the distinguished American's visit to France. In the course of his address, Mr. Roosevelt made reference to the sul-ject sul-ject of human rights and property rights In the following paragraphs; "As regards the moneyed interest I can put In a few words. In every civilized society property rightR must be carefully safeguarded. Ordinarily, ami In the great maorily of cases, human hu-man rights and property rights are fundamentally and. in ilie long run, identical; but when It clearly appears that there Is a real conflict between them, human rights must have tho upper up-per baud; property belongs to man and not man to property." Mr. Roosevelt spent the day In the Old Iatln quarters across the Seine, which for centuries has been one of the Intellectual centers of the world. At 1 o'clock this afterncon, in his capacity as a foielgu member of the French Institute, he attended the regular reg-ular session of the Academy of Moral and political Sciences In tbe conference confer-ence hall of the old Mazarin palace, which is now the home of tho Institute Insti-tute This room was selected, instead of the smaller room in which tbe "forty immortals ' meet, in order to permit the public to enter, and because be-cause it is the usual meeting place of three of the academies, the Academy i of Fine Arts, the Academv of Tnsrlp- ! lions and Literature and the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. At 3 o'clock he delivered his lecture in the grand amphitheater of the Sor-bonne. Sor-bonne. where he was most cordially received Ills remarks were followed with intense interest. Paris. April 23. In his lecture today at tho Sorbonne, Col. Theodore Roosevelt Roose-velt spoke on Individual citizenship In the republics of France and tho United Stales. In part, he said'. 'With you here, and with us in my own home, in the long run, success or failure will be conditioned upon the way In which tho average man, tho average woman, does his or her duty; first In tho ordinary, every-day affairs of life, and next In those great occasional oc-casional crises which call for tho heroic virtues. The average citizen must bo a good citizen If our republics repub-lics are to succeed. Tbe stream will "t permanently rise higher than the j main source; and the main source . of national power and .national great- rcss Is found In the average citizen- ship of the nation. Therefore it be- i hooves us to do our best to seo tho standard of tho average citizen 1 I kept high; and tho average cannot bo kept high unless the standard of tho leaders i3 very much higher. "It is well if a large proportion of the leaders In ujiy republic. In any democracy, de-mocracy, are, as a matter of course, drawn from the classes represented in this audience today; but only provided pro-vided that those classes possess tho gifts of sympathy with plain people and of devotion to great ideals. You and those like you have received special spec-ial advantages, you have all of you bad tho opportunity for mental training; train-ing; many of you have had leisure; mopt of you have had a chance for the enjoyment of life far greater than comes to tho majority of your fellows. To you and your kind much has lieen given, and from you much should be expected. "It Is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how tho strong man stumbles, or where Hie doer of deeds could havo done them better. The credit belongs to tho man who Is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; valiant-ly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there Is no ttfort without error and short-coming; but who does actually btrlvo to do tbe . deeds; who knows the great enlhus- , iasm, the great devotions; who spends himself In a worthy cause; who nt th- j best knows In the end the triumph J of high achievement, and who at the . worst, if he falls, at least falls while daring greatly, o that bis place shall never be with those cold and timid ; souls who know neither victory nor , defeat. ! "Shame on Ibe maa of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop de-velop into a fastidiousness that unfits lilm for doing the rough work f a workaday world. Among the free , peoples who govern themselves Ihero is but a small field of usefulness open for the men of cloistered life who r-hiink from contact with their fi-1 fi-1 low. Still less room Is there for thr.se who deride or slight what Ik ' ilope by those who actually bear the j brunt of the day; n.ir yet for those t otherB who always prefers that they , ( would like to lake action. If only tbe conditions of life were not what they actually are. "I pay all homage to Intellect, and lo elaborate and specialized training t of the Intellect; und yet I know 1 i bhall have the assent of all of you I prejnt when I add that more import- j ant still are the commonplace, every-' every-' dav qualities and virtues, j "Such ordinary, every-day qualities j mattorj of religion and opinion, but complete liberty for each man Ui lead his life as no desires, provided only that in so doing he does not wrong hi3 neighbor." LECTURE OF ROOSEVELT. (Continued From Pago One). est Is tho race's power to perpetuate tho ruce. "In short, the good citizen in a republic must realize that he ought to possess two petH of iualltles, and thai neither avails without the other. He must have those qualities which make for efficiency; and he must also have those qualities which direct the efficiency ef-ficiency Into channels for the public go.d. He Is useless if he is Inefll-I Inefll-I cient. There is nothing to bo don ! with that type of citizen of whom all that can be said Is that he Ir harm-; harm-; less. Virtue which Ir dependent upon ; a sluggish circulation Is not Impres-; Impres-; slve. There Is little place In active j life for the timid good man. The man i who In saved by weakness from ro-I ro-I bust wickedness Is likewise rendered I immune from the robnster virtues. The good citizen In a republic must first of all be able to hold his own. He is no good cltlzm unless he has the ability which will make him work hard and which at need will make blm light hard. The good citizen is not a good citizen unless be is an efficient j citizen I "There are plenty of men calling ! themselves Socialists with whom, up to a .time point, It Is quite possible to work. If the next step is one which both we and they wish to take, why of course take It, without any regard to 'ho fact that our views aa to the tenth step may differ. But, on the other hand, keep clearly in mind that, thoush it has been worth while to take one step, this does not in tho least mean that It may not ho highly j disadvantageous to take the nexL "Tho good citizen will demand liberty lib-erty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others re- i celve the liberty which he thus I I claims ns his own. Probably tbo beat test of true love of liberty In any country Is the way In which minorities aro treated In that country. Not only should there be complete liberty in |