Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-04-30


which present the Louisiana Purchas
Exposition to the world, were perform
ed in the Liberal Arts building toda.
with all the dignity and spendor be
fitting such an occasion. A parade o
1000 soldiers down Lindell Boulevard
to the Worlds Fair grounds formed {
brilliant prelude to the ceremony o
dedication. This prelude being over
10000 people crowded into the big Au
ditorium, where, in the presence of Of
ficia representatives of all the civiliz-
ed nations of the world, the words OF
dedication We're spoken by the Presi-
dent of the United States. AS the last
syllable fell from the speakers lips
and the dedication of the worlds great
est fair was completed, 10000 voices
rose in a prodigious bass note of ap-
plause. Besides President Roosevelt,
other participants in the ceremony
We're Cardinal Gibbons, Bishops e. r.
Kendrick and Henry c. Potter, Former
President Grover Cleveland, Thomas H.
Carter, president of the day, and Da-
vid r. Francis. The days demonstra-
tions will conclude tonight with a dis
play of fireworks on magnificent
scale.
The weather was the only disappoint-
ing factor of the day. The troops mob
ilized early in a sprinkling of rain and
marched in temperature close to the
freezing point. For few moments
snow fell but only enough of 1t to
give visible evidence of the tempera-
ture. In the grand stand men in their
heavy overcoats shivered while women
garbed in elegant but inadequate laces
suffered much more severely. 1t was
all taken good naturedly, however.
President Roosevelt then made the
dedication address, speaking as fol-
lows:
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S AD-
DRESS.
The soil upon which we stand. be-
fore it was ours. was successfully the
possession of two mighty empires,
Spain and France, whose sons made"a
deathless record of heroism in the early
annals of the New World. No history
of the Western country can be written
without paying heed to the wonderfui
part played therein in the early days
by the soldiers, missionaries, explorers,
and traders, who did their work for the
honor of the proud banners of France
and CASTLE. While the settlers of En-
disappearing stock, and those of Dutch,
German, and Scandinavian origin who
were associated with them, were still
clinging close to the Eastern seaboard,
the pioneers of Spain and of France
had penetrated deep into the hitherto
unknown wilderness of the West and
had wandered far and wide within
the boundaries of what is now our
mighty country. The very cities them
selyes-St. Louis, New Orleans, Santa
Fe. New Mexico-bear witness by their
titles to the nationalities of their
founders.
We have met here today to commem-
crate the hundredth anniversary OF the
event which more than any other, after
the foundation of the Government ana
always excepting it's preservation, de-
terrnined the character of our national
life-determined that we should be
great expanding nation instead of rel
atively small stationary One.
A CAREER OF EXPANSION.
When we acquired this vast region
known as Louisiana, we made evident
once for all that consciously and of
set purpose we had embarked on ca
reer of expansion, that we had taken
our place among those daring and
hardy nations who risk much with the
hone and desire of winning high posi-
ton among the great powers of the
earth. AS is often the case In nature,
the law of development of living or
panism showed itself in it's actual
workings to be wiser than the wisdom
of the wisest
This work of expansion was by far
the greatest work OF our people during
the years that interviewed between the
adoption of the Constitution and the
outbreak of the Civil War. There
were other questions of real moment
and Importance, and there were many
which at the time seemed such to those
engaged in answering them; but the
greatest feat Of our forefathers OF those
generations was the deed of the men
who, with pack train or wagon train,
on horseback, on foot. or by boat upon
the waters, pushed the frontier ever
westward across the continent.
Never before had the world seen the
kind Of national expansion which gave
our people all that part Of the Ameri-
can continent lying west Of the thir-
teen original States; the greatest land