The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-01

not have used Alright their conquest
had they not in addition possessed the
qualities of self-mastery and Self-re-
straint, the power of acting in com BIZ
nation with their fellows, the power OF
yielding obedience to the law and OF
building up an orderly civilization.
Courage and hardwood are indispensa-
Bile virtues in a people; but the people
which possesses no others can never
rise high in the scale either of power
or of culture. Great peoples must
have in addition the governmental ca
pacity which comes only when individ-
uals fully recognize their duties to one
another and to the whole body polite,
and are able to join together in feats
of constructive craftsmanship and OF
honest and effective administration.
Phone err Virtues still Needed.
"The old pioneer days are gone, with
their roughness and their hardship,
their incredible toll and their Wild
half-savage romance. But the need
for the pioneer virtues remains the
same as ever. The peculiar frontier
conditions have vanished; but the man.
liness and stalwart hardihood of the
frontiersman can be given even freer
scope under the conditions surround
ing the complex industrialism of the
present day. In this great region ac-
4uiACd III Jul pGOplc ulueT IHe DTSSl-
dency of Jefferson, this region stretch
ing from the Gulf to the Canadian Dor
der, from the Mississippi to the Roc
kles, the material and social prog
ress has been so vast that alike for
veal and for woe its people now share
the opportunities and bear the burdens
common to the entire civilized world.
The problems before us are fundament-
ally the same east and west of the
MiSglGginni in the and in
the old and exactly the same qualities
are required for their successful solu-
ton.
I'VE meet here to-day to commence
rate a great event, an event which
marks an era in craftsmanship no less
than in pioneering. 1t is fitting that
we should pay our homage in words;
but we must in honor make our words
good by deeds. We have every right
to take just pride in the great deeds
of our forefathers; but we show our
selves unworthy to be their descend
ants if we make what they did an eX-
cuse for our lying supine instead of an
incentive to the effort to show our
selves by our acts worthy of them. In
the administration of city, state and
nation, in the management of our home
life and the conduct of our business
and social relations, we are bound to
show certain high and fine qualities
of character under penalty of seeing
the whole heart of our civilization
eaten out while the body still lives
Following President Roosevelt's adj
dress the chorus rendered unfold Ye
Portals"
Cleveland Came Next.
Senator Carter then introduced ex-
President Grover Cleveland, who spoke
as follows:
tlemen: The impressiVeness of this oc-
casion is greatly enhanced by reason
of an atmosphere of prophecy's fulfill
ment which surrounds it. The thought
is in our minds that we are amid awe
inspiring surroundings, where we may
see and feel things foretold a century
ago. We are here in recognition of
the one hundredth anniversary of an
event which doubled the area of the
young American nation, and dedicated
a new and wide domain to American
progress and achievement. The treaty
whose completion we to-day commem-
crate, was itself prophecy of our
youthful nations mighty growth and
development At its birth prophets in
waiting joyously foretold the happiness
which it's future promised. He who
was the chief actor for the United
States in its negotiation, as he signed
the perfected instrument. thus de-
clared its effect and far-reaching con-
sequences: 1.-THE instrument which we
have just signed will cause no tears
to be shed. 1t prepares ages OF hap
pinesS for innumerable generations of
human creatures. The Mississippi and
the Missouri will see them succeed one
another-tru1y worthy of the regard
and care of Providence-in the bosom of
equality under just laws freed from
the errors of superstition and the
scourges of bad government.
Almost within the limits of the ter
ritory gained by the Louisiana Pur-
chase, we have already carved out
twelve great states-leavtng still large
residue, whose occupants are even now
loudly clamoring for statehood.
Instead of the 5000 white settlers
who occupied this domain in 1903, it
now contains 100000 of industrious
enterprising intelligent Americans, con-
shutting about one-fifth of the popu-
lation of all our states; and these are
defiantly contesting for premiership in
wealth and material success, with the
Oldest of our states, and are their
equals in every phase of advanced in
telligence and refined civilization.
There were wise men near our Pres
ident in 1903 who differed with him
touching the nations power to acquire
new territory under the original pro-
visions of the constitution; and these
men did not fail to make known their
dissent. Moreover in the Senate to
which the treaty was submitted for
confirmation, there was an able dis
cussion of its constitutional validity
and effectiveness. The judgment of
that body on this phase of the sub
1ect was emphatically declared, when
out of thirty-one votes, twenty-fo
were cast in favor of continuation. An
amendment to the constitution was aft
erward presented to Congress, but it's
first appearance was it's last 1t does
not appear that the President interest
ed himself in its fate, and it died at
the moment of it's Introduction.
while in this day and generation we
may wonder at the doubts which so
perpleXed Jefferson in 1903, and at his
estimate of the limitations of our fun
damental law, and may be startled
when we reflect that if they had been
allowed to control his action we might
have lost the greatest national oppor-
tunity which has been presented to our
people since the adoption of the consti-
tuition, we cannot fail at the same time
to be profoundly grateful that these
doubts and this estimate were those of
man sincere enough and patriotic
enough to listen to wise and able coun-
sellers and TO give his country the BEN
eft of his admission of the fallibility
of his judgment
Thomas jefferson never furnished
better evidence of his greatness than
when, just before the submission of
the treaty to the Senate, he wrote to a
distinguished senator who differed
with him on this question: I confess