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THE MAUI NEWS
SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1910
Citizenship in
a Republic
Roosevelt's Address at the
Famous Sabonoe.
Paris, April 2:',. Oil. Roosevelt's
address on "Citizenship in a Repub
lic" was delivered today at the fa
mous Sabonnc. Every mcnilicr of
the French ('alii net was present,
anil a great many notables were in
the audience. Mr. Roosevelt was
given a most enthusiastic reception
by the student body, and the telling
points of his address were punctua
ted by cheering. Mr. I'oosevelt's
address in part as follows:
Paris, April 23. In his lecture
today at the Habonne, Col. Theodore
Roosevelt spoke on individual citi
zenship in the republics of Franco
' and the United States. In part he
said:
"With you here, and with us in
our own home, in the long run, suc
cess or failure will be conditioned
UKn the way in which the average
man, the average woman, does his or
her duty first in the ordinary, every
day affairs of life, and next in those
great occasional crisis which call for
t " the heroic virtues. The average citi
; zen must be a good citizen if our
republics are to succeed. The stream
will not permanently rise higher
than the main source; and the main
source of national power and nation
al greatness is found in the average
citizenship of the nation." Therefore
it behooves us to do our best to see
that the standard of the average citi
zen is kept high; and the average
cannot be kept high . unlwss the
standard of the leaders is-very much
'' higher.
"It is well if a large proportion
' of the leaders in any republic, in any
j democracy, are, as a matter of
course, drawn from the classes repre
sented in this audience today; but
only provided that those classes pos
sess the gift of sympathy with plain
poople and of devotion to great
ideals. You and those like you have
received special advantages; you
have all of you had the opportunity
for mental training; many of you
have had leisure; most of you have
had a chance for the enjoyment of
life far greater than comes to the
majority of your fellows. To you
and your kind much has been given
and from you much should lie ex
pected. "It is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how
the strong man stumbles, or where
the doer of deeds could have clone
them better. The credit belongs to
the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and
sweat and blood; who strives vali
antly; who errs, and comes short
again and again, because there is no
effort without error and shortcom
ing; but who does actually strive to
do the deeds; who knows the great
enthusiasm, the great devotions; who
spends himself in . a worthy cause,
who at the best knows in the end
the triumph of high achievement,
and who at the worst, if he fails, at
least fails while daring greatly, so
that bits place shall never lie with
-?'vr!'tliose cold anil tiniid souls who know
neither victory nor defeat. Shame
on the man of cultivated taste who
permits rennement to develop m a
fastidiousness that unfits him for
doing the rough work of a woikakay
world. Among the free peoples whe,
govern tliemseives mere is uui a
small field of usefulness open" for the
men of cloistered life who shrink
from contact with their fellows.
Still less room is there for those who
deride or slight what is done by
i those wno actually near me nruni oi
the day; nor yet for those others
' ...1... 1 t.. !.., (I.,.., .......1.1
like to take action. If only the con
ditions of life wt re not what they
actually are.
"I pay all homage to intellect, and
to tlaUnate and siM-oialiZ'-d training
of the intellect ; and yet I know I
shall have the assent of all of yu
present when 1 add that more im
portaut still are tho commonplace,
every-day qualities and virtue.
"Such ordinary every-day quali
ties include the will and the power
to work, to fightat need, and to have
plenty of healthy children. There
are a few people in every country
so Uirn that they can lead lives of
leisure. These fill a useul function
if they make it evident that leisure
does not mean idleness. Bit the av
erage man must earn! his own liveli
hood. He should be trained to do
so, and he should lie trained to feel
that he occupies a contemptible po
sition if he does not do so; that he
is not an object of envy if he is idle,
at whichever end of the social scale
he stands, but an object of contempt,
an object ot derision.
'In the next place, the good man
should lie both a strong and a brave
nian; that is, be should lie able to
fight, he should be able to serve his
country as a soldier if the need aris
es. There are well-meaning philoso
phers who declaim against the un
righteousness of war. They are right
only if Ihey'lay all their emphasis
upon tne unrighteousness. War is a
dreadful thing, tfnd unjust war is a
crime against humanity. But it is
such a erimejlH'cause it is unjust, not
because it is war. The choice must
ever be in favor ot rigliteousnes,
and this whether tho alternative be
peace or whether the alternative le
war. The question must not be mere
ly. Is there to be peace or war? The
question must be: Is there are right
to prevail? Are the great laws of
righteousness once more to Ix; ful
filled? And the answer from a strong
aud virile people must be, Yes,
whatever the cost. ..'
Finally, even more important
than ability to work, even more im
portant than ability to fight at need,
is it to remcml)er that the chief of
blessings for any nation is that it
shall leave its seed to inherit the
land. It was the crown of blessings
in Bilican times; and it is the crown
of blessings now. The greatest of
all curses is the curse of sterility,
and the severest of all condemnations
should be that visited upon wilful
sterility. The first essential 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 to in
crease, it is a great misfortune. If
tho failure is due to deliberate and
wilful fault, then it is not ineroly a
misfortune, it is one of those crimes
of ease and self-indulgence, of
shrinking from pain and effort aud
risk, which in the long run Nature
punishes more heavily than any
other. If we of the great republics,
if we, the free people wTio claim to
have emancipated ourselves from the
thraldom of wrong and error bring
down on our heads the curso that
comes upon the . wilfully barren,
then it will be an idle waste of
breath to prattle of our achieve
ments, to Itoast of all that we have
done. No refinement of life, no deli
cacy of taste, no material progress,
no sordid heaping up of riches, no
sensuous development of art and
literature, can in any way compen
sate for the lass of the great funda
mental virtues, and of these great
fundamental virtues, the greatest is
the race's power to perpetuate the
race. '
In short, the good citizen in a re
public must realize that he ought to
possess two sets of qualities, and
that neither avails without the other.
He must have those qualties which
make for efficiency; and he must
also have those qualities which'
direct the efficiency into channels
for the public good. He fs useless
if he is inefficient. There is nothing
to Ite done with tba't type of citizen
of whom all that can be said is that
he is harmless. Virtue which is de
pendent ujHin a sluggish circulation
is not impressive. There is little
place in active life for the timid
tiotid man. The man who is saved
by weakness front robust wicked
ness is likewise rendered . immune
from the minister virtues. The gxid
citizen in a remiblic must first o:
all lie able to hold bis ow n. H
no good citizen unless he has the
ability which will make him work
hard and which at need will make
aU
Life Insurance
on the Wane Here.
Life insurance companies evident
ly do iiot find good pickings in Ha
waii, particularly since the scandals
of a few years ago affecting the
arger companies of New York.
bout six months ago the Provident
Insurance Company abandoned its
Iawaiian agency, since when policy
holders have lieen forced to corres
pond with the general agency in the
east. . .
Now comes the information that
the Germania Life will cease its Ha
waiian efforts on anything like a
large scale. This company branch
ed out here years ago under (Sear,
vnsing & Company, Emmctt May
and others and finally passed tinder
the wing of the Waterhouse Trust,
with John W. Farwell as manager.
Mr. Far well will shortly leave the
islands to enter the office of his com
pany in Seattle; and it is understood
that his departure will mark the end
of anything like an. extensive bid
for business by the Germania in
Hawaii.
The New-York Life is making
some small efforts j.n the direction
of new business here, but the Equit
able and Mutual Life seem to be
confining their efforts to "renewals."
Insurance pickings in the Paradise
of the Pacific have grown exceed
ingly short. Star. - '
Wild Accusation
Against Officer.
Hilo, Hawaii, April 22. In No
vember last Manuel Santos of the
Waialea saloon was fined $12" for
not having taken out a wholesale
liquor license under the United
States revenue laws. Santos alleges
that he paid $25 on account to U.
deputy internal revenue collector
Walter Doyle, and that, later, on
the demand of the U. S. authorities
Mr. Doyle representing the depart
ment, was given a check for the
balance, a check calling for 8M00,
this check being signed by J. A.
Serrao. It is alleged here that the
eheck was cashed but that the
money was not turned into the in
ternal revenue office. Santos and
Serrao leave today to apjear before
the Federrl grand jury to testify in
this regard.
, It is absolutely known that the
money referred to was turned into
the internal revenue office by Mr.
Doyle, and it was turned in before
U. S. internal revenue inspector
Thomas arrived on these islands.
The grand jury informant is out of
his reckoning. Walter Doyle has
not been guilty of any irregularity
in this matter. The subject has, to
be sure, been under consideration
y the Federal grand jury, but there
is no allegation of wrong handling
against Doyle. Star.
lim fight hard. The good citizen
is not a good citizen unless he is an
efficient citizen,
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 the fact that our views
as to the next step may differ. But,
on the other hand, keep clearly in
mind that, though it has been worth
while to take one step, this does not
in the least mean that it may not be
highly disadvantageous to take the
next.
"The good citizen w ill demand
lilicrty for "himself, and as a matter
of pride he will see to jt that others
receive the liberty which he thus
claims as his own. Probably the
Ust test of. true love of liberty in
anv country . is the way in which
minorities are treated in that eoun
try. Not only should there be com
plete liberty in matters of religion
and opinion, but complete liUrty
for each man to lead his life as he
desires, provided only that in so do
ing ho does not wrong his neighbor
Why Women
Hissed Tafl.
Washington, I). ('., April 14.
The president of the United Slates
the first chief executive of the nation
ever to greet a convention of women
suffragists, tonight had the courage
to confess his opinion and was hiss
ed. So great was the throng that
sought admission to the hall that
hundreds were turned away.
President Taft was welcoming to
Washington the delegates to the
convention of the National Woman
Suffrage Association, He told them
frankly he was not altogether in
sympathy with the suffrage move
ment and was explaining why he
could not subscribe fully to its prin
ciples. He said he thought one of
the dangers in granting- suffrage to
women was that women as a whole
were not interested in it, and the
ballot, as far as women are con
cerned, would be controlled by the
"less desirable class."
When hese words fell from the
president's lips the walls of the hall
echoed a chorus of feminine hisses.
It was no feeble demonstration of
protest. The combined hisses sound
ed as if a valve on a steam engine
had broken.
President Taft stood unmoved in
the demonstration of hostility for
the hisses continued for but a mo
ment and then, smiling, as he
spoke, he answered the unfavorable
greeting with this retort:
"Now, my dear ladies, you must
show yourselves capable of suffrage
by exercising that degree of restraint
which is necessary in the conduct
of government affairs by- not his
sing." '
Tho women who had hissed were
rebuked. . The president's reply ap
parently had taken hold. There
was no more hisses while the presi
dent -continued his address," which
he characterized as "My confession"
on the Woman suffrage question. At
the conclusion of his talk he was
applauded and some of the leaders
of the convention expressed to him
their sincere regret over the un
pleasant incident.
President Taft assured them his
feelings were not injured in the least.
THE BOY HE WANTED.
A Chicago stationer has a new of
fice boy who is different." The
ad entered the store early in the
morning ivnen tne stationer was
opening his mail. The later glanced
up and went on reading without
speaking. ' After three minutes the
boy said :
"Excuse me but I'm in a hur
ry!"
W hat do you wantr lie was
asked."
"A job."
"You do? Well," snorted the
man of business, "why are you in
such a hurry.'
"(hit to hurry," replied the loy.
Left school yesterday to go to work,
and haven't struck anything yet. I
can't waste time. If you re got
nothing for me nay" so, and I'll look
elsewhere The only place where I
can ston loner is w here they pay me
for it."
"When can you come," asked the
surprised stationer.
"Don't have to come," was the
reply. I'm here now." Exchange.
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