necessity of order being established from without, coupled with
your ability and willingness to establish it. Now, either you have
the right to be in Egypt, or you have not; either it is, or it is
not your duty to establish and keep order. If you feel that you
have not the right to be in Egypt, if you do not wish to establish
and keep order there, why then by all means get out of Egypt. If,
as I hope, you feel that your duty to civilized mankind and your
fealty to your own great traditions alike bid you to stay, then
make the fact and the name agree, and show that you are ready to
meet in very deed the responsibility which is yours.

There may be little Ciceronian grace about these passages, but there
is unmistakable verbal power. So many words of one syllable and of
Saxon derivation are used as to warrant the opinion that the speaker
possesses a distinctive style. That it is an effective style was
proved by the response of the audience, which greeted these particular
passages (although they contain by implication frank criticisms of the
British people) with cheers and cries of "Hear, hear!" It should be
remembered, too, that the audience, a distinguished one, while neither
hostile nor antipathetic, came in a distinctly critical frame of mind.
Like the man from Missouri, they were determined "to be shown" the
value of Mr. Roosevelt's personality and views before they accepted
them. That they did accept them, that the British people accepted
them, I shall endeavor to show a little later.

There are people who entertain the notion that it is characteristic of
Mr. Roosevelt to speak on the spur of the moment, trusting to the
occasion to furnish him with both his ideas and his inspiration.
Nothing could be more contrary to the facts. It is true that in his
European journey he developed a facility in extemporaneous