COLONEL ROOSEVELT IN ENGLAND. 



which the problem is approached must ever be fundamentally the 



same. 



" It must be a spirit of broad humanity; of brotherly kmdness; 

 of acceptance of responsibility, one for each and each for all ; and 

 and at the same time a spirit as remote as the poles from every form 

 of weakness and sentimentality. 



" As in war to pardon the coward is to do cruel wrong to the 

 brave man whose life his cowardice jeopardizes, so in civil affairs it 

 is revolting to every principle of justice to give to the lazy, the 

 vicious, or even the feeble and dull-witted, a reward which is really 

 the robbery of what braver, wiser, abler men have earned. 



SPECIAL PROBLEMS AND SPECIAL DUTIES OF OUR OWN. 



" But in addition to these problems the most intimate and im- 

 portant of all which to a larger or less degree affect all the modern 

 nations somewhat alike, we of the great nations that have expanded, 

 that are now in complicated relations with one another and with 

 alien races, have special problems and special duties of our own. 



" You belong to a nation which possesses the greatest empire 

 upon which the sun has ever shone. I belong to a nation which is 

 trying, on a scale hitherto unexampled, to work out the problems 

 of government for, of, and by the people, while at the same tmie 

 doing the international duty of a great Power. But there are cer- 

 tain problems which both of us have to solve, and as to which our 

 standards should be the same. 



'' The Englishman, the man of the British Isles, m his various 

 homes across the seas, and the American, both at home and abroad, 

 are brought into contact with utterly alien peoples, some with a 

 civilization more ancient than our own, others still in, or havmg 

 recently arisen from, the barbarism which our people left behind 



years ago. 



'' This is what our peoples have in the main done, and must con- 

 nnue to do, in India, Egypt, and the Philippines alike. In the next 

 place, as regards every race, everywhere, at home or abroad, we 



