Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-06-01
LEWIS AND CLARK
EXPOSITION OPENED
Portland, Oregon, Does Itself Proud
Today and Throws It's HOspitdbIe
Gates Open to the WOrld--A Fine
Address by Vice President Fair
banks.

Portland, Ore June Amid scenes
~ of festivity and splendor neve
equalled in the Pacific northwest, will
the din and clamor of cheering thou
sands, accompanied by the booming o.
artillery, Ginning of bells and blarine
of bands, Portland today made hel
greatest bow to the world in the for
NAL opening of the Lewis and Clark
Centennial Exposition. The exposi
tion was opened by President Roose
welt by wire from Washington and the
celebration was participated in by his
personal representative, Vice Presi
dent Charles w. Fairbanks, represent
atives of the Senate and the House of
the National Congress, of the army
and the navy, together with the gov
ernors and staffs of the states of Cali
fornia, Idaho, Washington and Oregon
and multitude of people from far
and near After the parade the cere-
monies on. the grounds were opened by
President Goode of the exposition,
who was followed by number of 9th
~ oPSohSho, uhioho thSha ' Nv ASoi
dent Fairbanks who spoke as follows:
Vice President Fairbanks Address.
Mr.. President, Ladies and Gentlemen
President Roosevelt has taken a
very great interest in the Lewis and
Clark Exposition from its inception,
and it is at his request, and on his be-
half, | have the great honor of parti
cipating with you in these opening
ceremonies.
We commemorate an important
event in American history. We pay
tribute to the intrepid explorers who
made their arduous expedition up the
Missouri, across the Rocky Mountains,
down to the Pacific, and pointed the
way to this land of incompatible op-
portunity. Their fame is secure where
the deeds of men of heroic mold are
forever recorded. They were the
forerunners of high order of civili-
cation In territory which, prior to
their venturesome enterprise, was ter
ra incognita. 1t was wilderness, in
habited by the aborigines, into which
uO WulLS lldu ChIClCug IL huo OO
come the seat of empire-of vast COM
mercial power We look upon their
work with genuine admiration and
grateful appreciation.
The Lewis.clark Exposition.
The expedition which we celebrate
was in the command of Captain Meri-
wethef Lewis, who had been the pri-
vate secretary of President Jefferson
and of Captain William Clark, a
brother. of George Rogers Clark, who
rendered such signal and lasting SER
vice on the frontier during the Ameri- |
can revolution. The small band who
composed the expedition possessed the |
qualities essential to a successful Is
sue. They were young and full of en-
thusiasm. They had great powers of !
endurance. they had tact, and they
possessed moral and physical courage
of a high order. They went about their
difficult and important mission In a
manner to insure the best results.
They not only went to explore an un-
known region, but TO make such re-
port of their discoveries as would be
of the utmost practical value to the
world. There was no misadventure
and no failure. They proceeded with
good judgment, with patience, and
with firm determination. Their ap-
pointed task was fraught with far
reaching consequences and beset with
unknown dangers. The expedition lay
far beyond the frontier and the reach
Of aid should grave perils arise. We
must measure the undertaking from
the environment of the time in which
it was laid. The courage which calm
ly braves unseen perils is often Of a
higher order than that which confronts
known dangers.
This exposition has risen as an ex-
preston of the gratitude of the people
for what brave men wrought for hu.
manity and civilization in the long ago.
The Pioneers.
Thousands followed In later years
the pathway of Lewis and Clark with
no less danger than they encountered
and no less heroism than they dis.
played. We gladly acknowledge our
Indebtedness to those who came hith-
er and erected this state. The pio-
neers who crossed the Alleghenies, the /,
Mississippi River, the great plains,
the Rocky Mountains. and built their I
homes here were of the best quality.
They were well fitted to found COM
monwealth and to raise here the torch I
of our western civilization. They
were not idlers. They were not aim
less wanderers. They were the soul
OF energy and came with high and
fixed purpose. They have made their
ample contribution to our national
strength.
Al we stand here amid the rich :
frulfs Of human effort and surrounded