Turning to the methods and results- of a man's work,
Mr. Roosevelt said it was a good thing that the guiding intelli- gences should have ample recognition and ample reward. Their places could not possibly be filled by any number of lesser intelligences. But attention should not be trans- ferred from the deed rewarded to the reward itself. If the multi-millionaire earned and used his wealth in a way that made him of real benefit, be became an asset of worth ; if he did not, he was of no value to any country. So far Mr. Roosevelt had spoken in English. But when he came to a passage in which he defined the rights of private property he repeated it in French. "In the great majority of cases," he said, "human rights and property rights are fundamentally and in the long run identical, but when there is a real conflict between them, human rights must have the upper hand, for property belongs to man, and not man to property." Next he dealt with oratory, which, like money, was often admired for itself instead of for the use to which it might be put ; and finally he spoke of the rights of minorities, of the odiousness of persecution, and of the universal value of patriotism, which, as he admirably said, " makes a nation a good member of the family of nations." This necessarily brief summary will be enough to show that Mr. Roosevelt treated his audience to such a plain and bracing asseveration of ancient truths as Frenchmen, for one reason or another, have not often the opportunity of hearing.
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