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and industrial future, and it is the most attractive playground in 

 the world. It most certainly presents excellent openings for capital- 

 ists, and ample inducements should be offered them to come here. 

 The home maker and actual settler, and not the speculator, should 

 be encouraged in making this a white man's country. 



" Remember that righteousness and our real ultimate self- 

 interest demand that the blacks be treated justly. I have no 

 patience with sentimentalists, and I think that sentimentality does 

 more harm to individuals than brutality. Therefore I believe in 

 helping the missionary, of whatever creed, who is laboring sincerely 

 and disinterestedly with practical good sense. 



" It is natural that I should have a peculiar feeling for the 

 settlers. They remind me of the men in our West, with whom I 

 worked and in whose aspirations I so deeply sympathize." 



COMPARES EAST AFRICA WITH AMERICAN WEST. 



In conclusian, Mr. Roosevelt drevv^ a comparison of the condi- 

 tions as he had found them in East Africa with those that con- 

 fronted the pioneers of Western America. 



The Roosevelt party ended their season of inaction in Nairobi 

 on August 4 and left for Naivasha, where preparations were made 

 for resuming the hunt. A big crowd gathered at the station to bid 

 the Colonel farewell, and he was forced to make a short speech just 

 before the train pulled in. 



The ex-President and Kermit arrived at Kijabe in the after- 

 noon, and without loss of time the former performed the ceremony 

 of laying the corner-stone of the new mission church and school for 

 white children. In a brief address, Mr. Roosevelt said: 



*' It is the duty of the leading race to help those v/ho are back- 

 ward to a higher plane of education, and the work of the mission- 

 aries in this movement is most important. I am particularly pleased 

 with what you are doing by your schools for the children of the set- 

 tlers in this country." 



After the corner-stone ceremony Mr. Roosevelt ar. ' his son 

 Kermit w^ent by train to Naivasha, where they arrived later in the 

 afternoon and at once went into camp. 



