East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-06-01
PORTLAND FAIR
OPENED TODAY
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speaker of the house Of representa-
tives OF the United States.
Music.
Address by Charles Warren Fair
banks, vice-president of the United
States, and personal representative of
the president
Presidential salute of q guns.
Notification by wire to president Of
the United States of the exposition
managements readiness to receive
signal to open the exposition.
President Roosevelt touches golden
key at White House in Washington,
| transmitting electrical energy which
rings chimes i'm the United States gov
ernment building and starts, machin-
cry of the exposition.
President Goode then declares the
Lewis and Clark centennial exposi-
| ton formally opened to the world.
THE Star spangled Banner" by
| the massed bands with artillery ac-
compartments and cathedral chimes.
! Divine benediction by the Most Rev.
Alexander Christie, d. D., archbishop
of Oregon.
The national anthem. Innes' band.
Centennial salute of 100 guns.
President Goodies Address.
President Goode, of the Lewis ana
Clark exposition, spoke in part as fol-
lows, on opening the fair to the world:
Ladies and gentlemen: The states
of the Pacific border today give hearty
welcome to the world TO share with
them in the Fluctuations upon the tri-
umphal achievements OH these shores
by aggressive American civilization
and the signal victories of peaceful
conquest.
The people Of the Pacific northwest
desire to give Lewis and Clark their
venerated place in history as surely
as they do honor to the man who
urged the exploration of what he call
ed this respectable breadth of coun-
try lying westward of the Mississippi
! river" and it may be that in history
President Jefferson's reputation will
stand higher for the quiet, determ-
ined persistency with which he
brought about the Lewis and Clark
exploration of the country west of the
Rocky mountains than for the acqui-
sition of the territory of Louisiana.
In all enterprises of great moment
contributing benefits to the many at
the cost of the few, it is gratifying
to feel that the law of compensation
discloses always a more worthy and
moving cause than mere material
gain. When we dwell upon the jour
ney through the continental wilder
think nf the
explorers pressing onward ever in the
very teeth of obstacles that would
have turned back many men actuated
by the highest resolution, Fiction lags
after truth. invention is unfruitful,
and imagination cold and barren"
With the opening of the exposition
today are consummated the efforts
that have been put forth within the
brief space of two years to oommemor-
ate a century of progress since the
explorers commissioned by President
jefferson showed the way to this land.
Our centennial celebration consti-
tutes the supreme effort of the people
of the Pacific northwest. and more
particularly the Oregon country, fit
tingly to recognize the services per-
formed by Lewis and Clark.
We celebrate today in connection
with our sister states of the west the
acquisition of the oregon country to
the Union. AS the acquisition of this
country was the greatest expansion
of our national domain and the only
section secured to use by right of dis
covery, so too this centennial is the
greatest undertaking of the people. In
keeping with the confident prophecy
of her great splendid future, the peo-
pie of the Pacific west have united to
prepare a fitting climax for her rapid
evolution from pioneerdom.