Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-01

to fix the popular imagination. The old their rights stretched westward, to ths Mississippi, and, vague and unreal though coess sams and e9odt stil ssgXed to giys the iprssfion a people were little more than the filling in Of already existing national boundaries.
 But t1aere could be no illusion about the the Mississippi stretching westward to the Pacific, which in that day was known m mittediy y's the territory m ~ of foreign power, of a European Kingdom. None of our peo- pie had ever laid claim to foot of it. Its acquisition could in no sense be treated When we Required 1t Ys made evident at purpose we had embarked on career of expansion; that we had taken our place Fisk ucR wh the hope and powers of the earth.
 Years that interyened between the adop- of the oivil war, 7 "
 We expanded by carving the wilder ness into territories and out of these ter syuefent teGsxsS o our o~n peops tried is to force 'o' on any section Of Of our nsw territory an unsuitable form ot govern another section Sndsr Of the territory covered by the Louisiana purchase 9 portion was given 196 statshSod soa not been admitted to statehood, although q century has elaPsed-although douhtless the practical governmental genius. of our race by devising methods suitable to meet upon Shs tue nSs alike, no matter how ineongruous this ap- plication might sometimes be.
 The old pioneer days are gone with incredible toll and their wild, half savags peculiar frontier conditions have van hsnsHh hardihood of the frontisrsan na can be given even freer scope under the condi- ism of the present day, h this great re- zion. acquired for our people under the from the egf ss border, from the Mississippi to the Rock les. the material and social progress. has been so vast that alike for veal and for woe it's people now share the opportuni- ties and bear the burdens common to the fore us are fundamentally the same east and west of the Mississippi, in the new states and Id, in the old and to exactly sy the the We meet here today to commemorate era in statesmanship no less than in pioneering. It is fitting that we should Day our homage III WOTQS, put we Inu@E In honor make our. words good by deeds. \ We have every right to take just pride In the great deeds of our forefathers, but descendants if we make what they did an excuse for our lying supine instead Of an incentive to the effort to show ourselves by our acts worthy of them.
 We justly pride ourselves on our mar vicious material prosperity, and such pros, p foundation upon which a higher life car 1 be built, but unless. we do in very fact k11{I@ %kaf Hnj Afn 4 l very little
 1 The old days were great because ths 1 ties, and we must make the new days great by showing these same qualities ton upon fenaety and fer I ty in resource: we must insist upon the strong yirile virtues, and we must insisi 1 no less upon the virtues of self restraint R our pr fae sss s5a and D nrIas pT1ae anf fe ea pan eo l short in any of these qualities we shal narey sa f Me ae deaeop f af fase eeieyf l in the future to an even greater degret than ln the pest then in the zen century n9N b3,, l the freest and most orderly, the most jus and most mighty nation which has evel l come forth from the womb of time
 Ex-President Cleveland was largely i retrospective in his talk on the Louisi l ana Purchase, detailing the history o1 l the requirement and development oi 1 the territory and quoting much from national records. By the latter h. sought to prove the fulfilIment of cen tury old. prophecies as to the marvel ous growth and prosperity of the lant :, secured through the treaty of 1903 ant was plain in his declaration that tn supernatural dominated the destiny O the United States.
 i While giving voice to no nev phrases or epigrams or making radica utterance, he stood squately for tn constitution and clean politics anl quietly slapped the expansion method following the SpanishrAmerican war.
 Commenting on Thomas Jefferson willingness to listen to argument whel he had placed an adverse construction on the constitution before the signinI of the Louisiana purchase. he said
 "We are glad at this hour that lief ferson was wrong in his adverse con 1 struction of the constitution and gla, that he was liberal minded enough t see that he might be wrong.
 ''And yet may we not profitabl, pause here long enough to contrast il our thoughts the careful and reveren manner in which the restrictions o our fundamental law were scrutinize' | n hundred years ago, with the tenden cy often seen in latter times to fip panty attempt the adjustment of ou constitution to the purposes of inter est and convenience 2"
 In conclusion MT. Cleveland said:
 ''We are all proud of our Americal citizenship. Let us leave this plac with this feeling stimulated by tn sentiments born of the occasion. Le us appreciate more keenly than eve how vitally necessary it is to our coun try's veal that every one within it citizenship could be clean minded il political. aim and aspiration, sheer
 and honest in his conception of ou country sslnission and aroused to high CT and more responsive patriotism b, the reflection that it is solemn thin
 to belong to people favored of God.
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