The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-05-20

this great undertaking We have invited the
world to witness our triumph and to partake
with us these fruits of 100 years of eiviliza-
tion and development. We give you cordial
greeting, and / assure you that our citizens
who have planned this festival for your en-
tertainment will make you welcome and show
you generous hospitality
Robert Cameron was next presented by
President Milburn and read his poem dedi-
Gated to the exposition.
The Orpheus Society sang "Salve Lib
erty,' accompanied by an orchestra, and
at the conclusion Vice President Roose-
velt was presented and a storm of ap-
plause gave him greeting as he came for
ward. He said:
RoOseyeIt's Remarks.
In his address Vice President Roosevelt
said:
The century upon which we have just en-
tered must inevitably be e-of tremendous
triumph or of tremendous failure for the
whole human race; because, to an infinitely
greater extent than ever before humanity is
knit together in all its parts, for veal or for
woe. All about us there are innumerable
tendencies that tell for good and innumerable
tendencies that tell for evil. 1t is, of course,
a mere truism to say that our own acts must
determine which set of tendencies shall over
come the other In order TO act. wisely we
must first see clearly. There is no place
among US for the mere pessimst; no man
who looks at life with vision that sees
all things black or gray can do aught health
full in molding the destiny of a mighty and
vigorous people. But there is Just as little
use for the foolish optinist who refuses to
face the many and real evils that exist and
who fails to see that the only way to insure
the triumph of righteousness in the future is
to war against all that is base, weak and un-
lovely in the present.
This twentieth century is big with the fate
of the nations OF mankind, because the fate
of each is low interviewer with the fate of
all to degree never even approached in any
previous stage of history. No better proof
could be given than by this very exposition.
A century ago no such exposition could have
even been thought of. The larger part of
the territory represented here to-day by so
many free nations was not even mapped,
and very much of It was unknown to the
hardest explorer. The influence of America
upon old world affairs was imponderable.
World politics still meant European politics.
All that is now changed, not merely by what
has happened here in America, but by what
has happened elsewhere.
Much Yet to Learn.
During the last century we have on the
whole made long strides in the right direc-
We all look forward to the day when there
shall be a nearer approximation than there
has ever yet been to the brotherhood of man,
and the peace of the world. More and more
We are learning that to love ones country
above all others is in no way incompatible
with respecting and wishing well to all 9TH
ers, and that, as between man and man, so
between nation and nation. there should live
the great law of right. These are the goals
dc rUh oh Lot
earnestly endeavor to realize them here on
this continent From Hudson's bay to Straits
of Magellan, we, the men of the two Ameri-
cas-, have been conquering the wilderness,
carving it into state and province. and seek
ing to build up in state and province gov
ernments which shall combine industrial
prosperity and moral well being. Let us ever
most vividIy remember the falsity of the be-
lief that any one of US is to be permanently
benefited by the hurt of another. Let us
strive to have our public men treat as
automatic the truth that 1t is for the inter
est of every commonwealth in the western
hemisphere TO see every other commonwealth
grow into riches and in happiness in material
wealth and in sober, strong self-respecting
manliness without which material wealth
avails so little.
To you Of the republics south of US 1 wish
to say a special word believe with all my
heart in the Monroe doctrine. This doctrine
is not to be invoked for the aggrandizement
of any one of us here on this continent at
the expense Of any one else on this continent
1t should be regarded simply as a great in
ternational Pan-American policy, vital to the
interests of all of US.
We should hold to a peculiarly rigid ac-
countability those men who in public life
or as editors of great papers, or as owner
Of vast fortunes, as leaders and modei.
of opinion in the pulpit, or on the platform
or at the bar, are guilty of wrongdoing, no
matter what form that wrongdoing may take
There must and shall be no falling off in
the national traits of hardihood and manli-
ness; and we must keep ever bright the love
of justice, the spirit of strong brotherly
friendship for ones fellows, which we hope
and believe will hereafter stand as typical
of the men who make up this, the mightiest
republic upon which the sun has ever shown.
The speech of Vice President Roosevelt
aroused a high spirit of enthusiasm, and
he was wildly cheered as he closed and
took his seat.
Senator Lodge was then presented He,
too, was enthusiastically received and
gave a scholarly address.