The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-22
USES TROWEL.
President Lays Corner Stone of
the Monument
CommemOrating the Lewis and
Clark Expedition.
A CROWD OF $4,000.
Witnesses the Ceremony and
Hears His Speech.
Leaves Oregon and Enters the
State of Washington.

Portland, Oregon, May 22.-President
Roosevelt stopped three hours in this
city. At Salem, the capital of the state,
a stop of three hours was made and the
president delivered an address on citi-
zenship at the capitol. The only other
stop made during the day was at Ore
gon City. a manufacturing town Is
miles south of this city. All along the
route crowds gathered al the stations
and gave the president an enthusiastic
reception. In this city he made the two
speeches, one at the laying of the corner
stone of the Lewis and Clark mon
ment and another at the banquet given
in his honor at the Hotel Portland by
the citizens of Portland. The president
spent the night here and at 9 o'clock
this morning resumed his journey.
When the president reached the city
park $4,000 had assembled there to wit
ness the laying of the corner stone of
the Lewis and Clark monument. The
spot where the monument is to be erect
ed is an elevation 200 feet above the
city from which point fine view OF
the Columbia and Willamette rivers
Mount Hood, Mount st. Helens, Mount
Adams and other snow-capped peaks OF
the cascade range can be had.
Mayor Williams delivered the address
of welcome to which the president re
sponded briefly.
He then laid the corner stone of the
monument that is to be erected IN hon
or of the famous expedition of Captains
Lewis and Clark in 1906 which gave 10
the United States the great northwest
territory known as the oregon country.
The exercises at the park were some
what curtailed on account of slight
shower of rain.
4 The grill room of the hotel where the
4 BANQUET was held presented a handsome
appearance. having been decorated with
a profusion of roses. lilies OF the valley
noted plants and hundreds OF electrlc
) lights OF various colors. Mayor w lllaills ..l1
presided and introduced the president
Long before the president arrived IN
this city the Hotel Portland. where he
spent the night. was surrounded py
company of national guards Whlle q
secret service man stood at every en-
I trance. no one being admitted except py
on his way to the depot the president
noticed an invalid child lying upon
stretcher on the curbing- He stopped
his carriage. alighted and kissed the lit
Af the laying of the corner stone of
the Lewis and Clark memorial the pres
ident said;
ner stone that is to call to mind tne
greatest single pioneering teat on TN lIlls
continent. the voyage across the con
tinent by Lewis and Clark, Whien
/ rounded out the ripe statesmanshlp OF
! .Iefferson and his fellows by giving the
/ United States all of the domain between
the Mississippi and Paclf1c fohoNti.S s
their advent came the reign OF the Auf
trader and then some sixty years ago
those entered in whose children ara
f childrenis children were to possess tiae
/ land. Across the continent IN the l ear
fortjes came the Ox-draWn, White-topped
wagons bearing the pioneers, the sat
wart sturdy. sunburnt men, with tneif
/ wives and little ones, who entered lnsc
this country to possess it. You nave
+ btIilt up here this wonderful common
wealth. a commonwealth great IN IT'S
past. and infinitely greater in its 1u-
ture tAppiause)
have as part of my escort the men OF
the Second Oregon who carried on eX-
pansion of our people beyond the Pa
+ cific as your fathers had carried 1t on
to the Pacific l speak to the men Of
the Pacific slope, to the men whose
+ predecessors gave US this region De7
| cause they were not afraid. because
they cid not seek the life or ease ana
4 safety because their life training was
not to shrink from obstacles but to
meet and overcome them; and now 1
ask that this nation go forward as II
has gone forward in the past; L ask
that it shape its life in accordance with
/ the highest ideals. I ask that we gov
ern the Philippines primarily in the IL
terest of the people of the ISLANDS
(Applause) And just so long as men
/ like Taft and Luke Wright are there
they viii be 50 governed | ask thar
/ our name be a synonym for truthful
and fair dealing with all the nations OF
the world: and I ask two things in cor
nections with our foreign pollcy-that
| we never wrong the weak and that we
| never finch from the strong
{ 1oxr q
spoke of the great pride We take in the
feats of the mighty battleshio which
bears the name of this state. the
/ Oregon. Cheers and aDplause.) It Is
a good thing to cheer her. but it is a
better thing to see that we keep on
building ships like her and even better.
That is the right way to cheer our
I Oregon. to see our senators and repre.
sentatives in congress to go on with the
building of the United States navy.
Whether we wish it or not. we have to
be a great power; we have to play \
great part. All we can decide Is
whether we viii play that part well or
i'll and if I know my countrymen thers
is scant doubt as to how the decision
will come out
I'VE have met to commemorate a
mighty pioneer feat. feat of the old
days, when men needed to call upon
/ every ounce of courage and hardihood
and manliness they possessed in order
| to make good our claim to this conti-
| nent- Let US in our turn with equal
courage, equal hardihood and manliness
carry on the task our forefathers have
entrusted to cur hands; and let US re-
| solve that we shall leave to our children
and our childrens children an even
mightier heritage than we received in
our turn I ask it and I am sure that
it VIII be granted
At Salem the president spoke as fol-
lows
1T is not only the lesson of what
these men did in war that we need to
learn. my fellow citizens: it is the ap-
piled lesson of citizenship that they
| teach. Fundamentally in this country.