The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-10
ROOSEVELT SEES TIE PACIFIC
GETS mrs FIRST SI0HT or THE
GREATEST or OCEANS.
spends . Busy Day summing Alo"g the
C0ast-Makes an Address On the WORK
Of the Pioneers VINO went TO California
Praises Respect for Trsdstions'

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Praises Respect for Irsd'''ons
SAN LUIS, OBIsPo, Cal, May o.-Presi
dent Roosevelt had his first glimpse OF tn
Pacific this morning. All day his tran
has been running along the ocean beach
His visits to-day have been to Santa Bar
bara. Ventura, Oxnard and San Luis ObisPo
All except Oxnard are ancient missioi
cities. The most satisfact ory visit Of all
because the most leisurely, was that made
by the President at Santa Barbara. The
reception committee met the train thret
miles beyond the city and took the Presi
dent and his followers over the hills amont
the lemon groves and residences into the
little city by the sea.
The training ship Alert was in the crescent
herbor, and as the President mounted the
stand from which he spoke quartermasteI
on the roof Of an adobe hut began wig
wagging and the ships guns shot out great
white wreaths OF smoke. MIR. Roosevelt
for the first time, heard the Presidents
!, salute go roaring over against the noun
| tains from the Pacific. Among other
| things the President said
To-day for the first time in my life
have seen the greatest OF the oceans.
have come across the continent from the
| Atlantic to the Pacific. from the East to the
West, and now West of the West into Cali
fornia. am particularly glad to be greeted
here at Santa Barbara by the men who wear
afloat the uniform Of Uncle Sam. Gap
plause.)
Il speak here in State which is what 1t
now Is because the pioneers who came here
came with empire in their brains. came to
fetch a new commonwealth by the side OF
the great ocean, az the Old World men
pitched their tents, because they were OF a
stock which dared to he great. We in our
time must dare to be great. Our country
looks eastward across the Atlantic and
Westward across the Pacific, across that
West which is the hoary East. from the
Occident TO the Orient. lApplause.] fail
to see how any son Of this country worthy
to he descended from the men Of 81 to IS.
The men who upheld the craftsmanship OF
Lincoln, and who followed to victory
Grant and Sherman and Thomas and Sheri-
dan-I fail to see how any true son of theirs
canin his turn fail to welcome with eager
joy the chance to make this country greater
than it has been before.
Here l speak in a region where there
than ours. Of the civilization that was in
California three-quarters of a century be-
fore the first hardy people of the new stock
crossed the desert, crossed the mountain
chains or came by ships up from the 18TH
mus. and l want to congratulate you upon
the way in which you are perpetuating the
memorials of that older civilization.
1T is a fine thing in a new community to
try and keep alive the continuity of'his-
toric interests. 1t is fine thing to try to
remember the background which even
those Of US who are most confdept of the
future may be pleased to ,see ex-
listed in the past. And I am pleased
to see In your architecture. both in the
architecture Of new and great buildings
and i'll the architecture Of the old buildings,
and in many other ways that you keep In
touch with the older civilization. giving
a peculiar favor to our own new civiliza-
ton; in an aga when the tendency is trihe
toward too great uniformity, care in pre-
seryl & Individuality IApplause.l
above ths lawn the sw that to ehsek
greed ard violence, that is to put o stop
to every form OF outrage by one man
agah 81 another; the law under and through
which aDLe We can preserve republican
il stitptiors ard democratic liberty. The
violence that accompanies license is the
handmaiden Of tyranny ard has through
out the worlds history proved but the
harbinger of dispotism.
The friars Of the Franciscan Mission
of Santa Barbara entertained the Presi-
old chapel with it's brilliant medieval dec
orations ard the queer little court and
graveyard. The President met Padre
Schuster, whose seventy eighth birthday
i! was. and said he hoped the father would
went about among the other bare-toed
brethren for the rest of the afternoon.
showing them his fingers and assuring
them that the President had voluntarily
shaken him by the hand
wicked bronco pony was pointed out to
the President on the drive as Stewart
Edward White, the novelist. The Presi-
dent brought along Mr.. Whites latest
book to read on his trip and had been so
books that he had written letters to the
author ah6ut them. He at once sent for
Mr. White and invited him to accompany
him to Monterey. where the Presidential
party will remain over Sunday. MIR. White
at once packed up and went along.
Al Ventura the boys of the Thatcher
ranch school came down TO the train on their
ponies and >cheered the President until
he was out Of sight down the track.
stocked the Presidents train with oranges
MS big s Sky ar-old child's head. The
President made little speeches at Oxnard,
a beet sugar ranch, and at Surf station, just
over spot where the full sweep of thePaciflc
rolling uninterrupted all the way from Asia
reared up against high sandy bluff.
The President addressed the people of
San Luis Bispo.and visited the famous ms
sion here.
benjamin Ide Wheeler, President Of the
university of California. became the Presi-
den is gut st at Los Angeles and will remain
with him while he Is in the State.