The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-05-07
rear guard cheered the appearance of

dlnal Gibbons. Bishops T.. II. Hendrix
and Henry G. Potter. Former President
Cleveland, Thomas n. Carter, president
of the day, and David II. Francis.
At the conclusion of the speeches,
Thursday being the one hundredth an
niversary of the signing of the treaty
which transferred the Louisiana pur-
chase fromErance to the United States,
a centennial salute of 100 aerial guns
was fired.
The days demonstrations concluded
at night with a display of fireworks on
a magnificent scale.
Presentation Speech of Francis.
.sThe people of the Louisiana Pur-.
chase are proud of their membership
in the federal union. They are CRATE
full for the benefits that have flowed
from a life under the enduring institu-
lions framed by the founders of the
republic. They congratulate their
brethren on the position Il country
occupies among the nations of the
earth and felicitate themselves on the
part they have performed toward rails
ing it to its present prestige and
power.
"They felt it a patriotic duty to fit
tingly commemorate the completion of
the first century of their connection
with the American republic, and the
rounding out of an important epoch in
the life of the republic. In the dis
charge of that duty this exposition
was conceived. The inhabitants of the
IA states and two territories com
prised within the purchase selected
St. Louis as the scene of the celebra-
ton.
"The universal exposition of 1904,
when the date of the opening rolls
around, one year from to-day, will
with its buildings completed, it's ex-
hibits installed, be thoroughly pre-
pared to- receive the millions of visit
ors who will enter its gates.
"The. beautiful picture whose out
lines you now behold, will, to adopt
the simile of the chief designer, when
completed, compose a song that will
~reverberate around the globe.
sand now, Mr.. President, it is my
pleasing privilege and high honor to
present5toyou for dedicationthe build
ings.o of the Louisiana Purchase EXPOSE
ton: May a high standard of citizen
ship and a broader humanity and the
mission of the country whose worthy
representatives you are, be sustained
and fostered and promoted by the uses
to which these structures are devoted.
May the happiness of mankind be adj
vanced and, b~roadened by the lofty
purposes that inspired this undertake
ing, and moved our own and our sis
ter countries to unite in its accom-
p~lishment."
Francis address terrific cheers
broke forth to greet President
Roosevelt, who next spoke.
The Presidents Speech.
After reviewing briefly the history
of the acquisition by this nation of
the Louisiana territory and referring
to the expansion of the nation in ter
ritory, then territories and then
| states, President Roosevelt went on
to say:
"The old pioneer days are gone, with
their roughness and their hardship,
their incredible toll and their wild
h~alf-savage But the need
for the pioneer virtues remains the
same as ever. The peculiar frontier
conditions have vanished; but the man
illness and stalwart hardihood of the
frontiersman can be-given w freer
| scope under the conditions surround
ing the complex industrialism of the
present day. In this great region ac-
quired for u people under the presi-
dency of Jefferson, this region stretch
ing from the Gulf to the Canadians bor-
der, from the Mississippitothe Rockies,
the material and social progress has.
been SO vast that alike for veal and:
for woe it's people now share the op-
portunities and bear the burdens COM
NOR to the entire civilized world. The
problems before us are fundamentally
the same east and west of the MISS
| sippi, in the new states and inthe old,
and exactly the same qualities are re-
quired for their successful solution,
Commentaries a Great Event. e
"We meet here to-day to commem-
crate a great event, an event which
marks an Grain craftsmanship no
less than in pioneering. 1t is fitting
that we should pay our homage in
words; but we must in honor make
our words good by deeds. We have
every right to take a just pride in
the great deeds of our forefathers;
but we show ourselves unworthy to
be their descendants if we make
what they did an excuse for Jour
lying supine, instead of an incentive
to the effort to show ourselves by
our acts worthy of them. In the adj
ministration Of city, state and ma
ton, in the management of our home
life and the conduct of our business
and social relations, we are bound
to show certain high and fine quail
tiles of character under penalty of
seeing the whole heart Of our civ
ilization eaten out while the body
still lives"
Methodist Bishops Meet.
Meadville, Pa, May 1.-The semi
annual assemblage of the bishops of
the Methodist Episcopal church of the