Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-01

de La Sale. who had, long before our
days, our days notion of the importance
Iof the great commercial routes; whose
purpose was to open one to China,
across this continent, at the very spot
where your northern lines of railways
ihave opened theirs; who called his first
lhouse OH the American soil La Chine,
| in order that he might never forget his
Initial purpose. He died in the quest,
| but not before he had explored the Mis-
| isissippi down to its mouth, not before
he had ascertained that It's source was
Ito the west. and that the river, there
/ fore, could be used as q guiding thread
Towards the Pacific; not before he had
Ilnade the first French settlements in
This your country and given it a name
(which has not been replaced by anoth
Ter, and is it's present'name of Louisiana.
Long is the roll and great were the
| lilardships. To the same region with the
same object of discovering came that
Typical cadet de GascogGe, the Cheva-
ier Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, who
on the 21st of July, 1901, unfurled the
| French flag at certain spot where he
began the building of a town, now the
town of Detroit; he became afterwards
governor OF Louisiana. Then came
such men as du Tissenet as the bro
theirs LeMoine deHerville and LeMoine
de Bienville, this last the founder o.
New Orleans; as father de Charlevoix,
who gave the best account we have o!
the country, and spoke most wisely
about It's future; as LaClede, witsier
| than anyone to be remembered at this
day and place, as he was the founder OF
your town.
The treaty giving away in full pos
session and forever Louisiana to the
United States; allowing them to spreaa
without meeting any foreign neighbors,
from one ocean to another, of adding
| fourteen states to the original thirteen,
lsigned 100 years ago, "au nom du peuple
Francais," in the year XI of the French
republic. The results have passed the
most sanguine hopes, but they have not
| gone beyond the extent of our friendly
fishes for the sister republic Of Amer
The representative of France
l>comes to this spot that was French in
4 former times, with feeling of admira-
| ton for what you have DONE and no
| feeling of regret. He sees a splendid
! development, art, sciences, trade and
agriculture, equally prosperous; he
applauds your success and expresses
from his heart his good wishes for your
grand exhibition of next year.
"As for his own country if she no
longer holds those immense domains,
she had on the other hand found other
4 territories, for the peaceful employment
of her inhaustible energy, with the re-
1 suits with which will forever rebound
the praise of the government of the re.
public. And, as for Louisiana itself,
| France rests satisfied with remember
ling that she did not have more friendly
| nor more sympathetic intentions. She
remembers also, not without pride, that
| her sons first discovered and titled the
soiL first described 1t and first drew
a map of it; that one of her most fa-
nous writers first revealed to the
world the springs of poetry thai lay
concealed as much under the fir trees
of the Mississippi valley as under the
| plane trees of Tempe; the diplomat and
literary artist who made all those who
had mind ard heart weep for the fate
of Alfalfa.
Seeing the results my countrymen
have never ceased TO approve of the
treaty signed hundred years ago, .au
nom du peuple Francais." Eighteen
hundred and three is the memorable
date in the relations between France
and America. In giving the United
States, according to the words OF the
lnagotiator their place among the great
est powers in the world, 1909 did moth
ling but perfect what had been glorious
lily begun in ITS and 1888"
Following the "Hallelujah Chorus
from The Messiah, which was given
by the band. Spanish Minister Senol
Don Emilio De Ojedo spoke for Spain