The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07
President R00sevelyon Expansion.


his address at the edcatory exercises at the LOUISIANA
Purchase exposition President Roosevelt said:
''Mr. President, Ladies andGentemen-
my address let recall to the memory U ny
the soil upon which stand before was ours ~
successfully the possession of two mighty empires
France whose made deahless record OF hefolsn III
early No history of the western country
can be written without paying the wonderful part played
therein early days by the soldiers missionaries
traders the honor OF the proud
ners Of France and Castillo While the settlers OF gs
stock Dutch German and ScandlnayS origin VINO
associated with them still clngng 20 the
board pioneers Spain had penetrated aeeP
the hitherto wilderness Of the west ana haa M
within the boundaries of what IS now OUT
r he very cities themselves Louis Orleans, Sane Fe
New Mexico-be witness Of their titles to the natlonae q
their founders not until had begun that the
English speaking settlers pushed vest across the Aeghanes
century thai they entered IN 20 possess n
land upon which stand.
Bsgianng Expahsiou
1--WE have met here today the hundredt an
nversary event than other after the found
alton of always excepting It's preservation
determined great expanding nation instead q
relatively a small and stationary one
Of course was with the Louisiana purchase tnat our
career expansion began In the middle OF the
Illinois region including the present states OF hnos ane
Indiana was to our domain by Of sequel to
adventurous expedition George Rodgers Clark ana MS IRON
tier rifemen treaties Of Jay e
tended boundaries ohe west But none OF these events
was of so striking character the popular imagination
tnreen had always claimed that their rghts
stretched westward Mississippi and and unreal though
made good by conquest settlement ana
diplomacy they give the impression that the earliest
westward movements people little than the filing
in Of already existing national boundaries
No lIlnson About
ut there could be Ssion acquisition of the
territory beyond the Mississippi stretching westward TO the
Pacific day Louisiana This immense
region admittedly territory of foreign power OF EURO
pe kingdom people had laid claim to foot OF
It's acquisition could be treated as rounding ou
any existing claims. When acqiredt made evident once
consciously had embarked on
career expansion that had taken place those da
ing hardy with the hope and desire Of
winning position among great powers of the earth AS
nature development of living organ
showed itself its actual workings to be wiser than the WIS
dom of the Wisest
expansion by far the greatest work Of our
people during years interviewed between the adoption Of
the constitution and the outbreak OF the ciVal war
No Precedent 10 Guide
e underlying viciousness type expansion Of the
Roman empire plain enough and the remedy now seems simple
enough But the fathers the republic first formulated The
which live this remedy untred and no
one could orte They themselves began the
experiment immeday adding the original th
people the viewed this initial expansion OF
country great Exactly during the colonial per-
iod many p9open country thought highly
porn settlers should kept Of the Ohio Valley in the in
terest companies after had become nation
many oad people felt apprehension
they might somehow be hurt by the westward growth OF the
These good shook their heads the formation OF
states valley which forms part Of the heart
OF our nation and they declared destruction of the repub
we ACQUIRED nearly hall what republics present
territory Nor was that feeling Only The adventurous
and far-seen expected heartily the process Of
expansion nation that expands is nation whlchls entering
UPON career and wish greatness there necessity
peris which daunt all the most stout hearted.
Over by far the major part the territory our people spread
in such beIs during the course nineteenth century
we we're able to build after state with exactly the
same complete ndependenoe affecting purely
its own domestic interests any original thirteen
owing eaty the union ofal the states
which each of the original thirteen states owesand finally
each having the same proportional rgnt shaping
directing the common policy which possessed any
other state whether of the original thirteen