COLONEL ROOSEVELT IN ENGLAND. 



cannot afford to deviate from the great rule of righteousness which 

 bids us treat each man on his worth as a man. 



" This has nothing to do with social intermingling, with what 

 is called social equality. It has to do merely with the question of 

 doing to each man and each woman that elementary justice which 

 will permit him or her to gain from life the reward which should 

 always accompany thrift, sobriety, self-control, respect for the rights 

 of others, and hard and intelligent work to a given end. 



" The foreign policy of a great and self-respecting country 

 should be conducted on exactly the same plane of honor, of insistence 

 upon one's own rights and of a respect for the rights of others, as 

 when a brave and honorable man is dealing with his fellows. 



THE COLONEL'S PERSONAL HONOR. 



" Permit me to support this statement out of my own experi- 

 ence. For nearly eight years I was the head of a great nation and 

 charged especially with the conduct of its foreign policy; and during 

 those years I took no action with reference to any other people on 

 the face of the earth that I would not have felt justified in taking as 

 an individual in dealing with other individuals. 



" I believe that we, of the great civilized nations of to-day, 

 have a right to feel that long careers of achievement lie before our 

 several countries. To each of us is vouchsafed the honorable privi- 

 lege of doing his part, however small, in that work. 



" Let us strive heartily for success, even if by so doing we risk 

 failure, spurning the poorer souls of small endeavor who know 

 neither failure nor success. Let us hope that our own blood shall 

 continue in the land, that our children and children's children to 

 endless generations shall rise to take our places and play a mighty 

 and dominant part in the world. But whether this be denied or 

 granted by the years we shall not see, let at least the satisfaction be 

 ours that we have carried onward the lighted torch in our own day 

 and generation. 



" If we do this, then, as our eyes close, and w^e go out into the 



