Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-06-06
WcE-PREsIDENr's ADDRESS.
Splendid Effort by Fairbanks on
Opening of Fair.

Vice-President Fairbanks, who
attended the opening of the great
Exposition as the personal repre-
sentative of President Roosevelt,
in his addresses on this occasion
voiced a prediction of great things
for the unlimited Wes.. He said:
We commemorate an import
ant event in American history.
We pay tribute to the intrepid
explorers who made their ardu-
Gus expedition up the Missouri,
across the Rocky Mountains,
down to the Pacific, and pointed
the way to this land Of incompar-
able opportunity. Their fame is
secure where the deeds of men Of
heroic mold are forever recorded.
They were the forerunners of a
high order of civilization in a
territory which prior to their ven.
turesome enterprise, was terra in
cognito. It was wilderness in
habited by aborigines, into which
no white man had entered; it has
become the seat OF empire-of
vast commercial power. We look
upon their work with genuine ad-
miration and grateful apprecia-
ton.
The expedition which we cele-
brate was in command of Captain
Meriwether Lewis who had been
the private secretary of President
Jefferson, and of Captain William
Clark, a brother of George Rogers
Clark. who rendered such signal
and lasting service on the from
tier during the American Revolu-
ton. The small band who com.
posed the expedition possessed
the qualities essential to a sue.
cessful issue. They were young
and full of enthusiasm. They
had great powers of endurance,
they had tact, and they possess.
ed moral and physical courage q
a high order. They went abouu
their difficult and important work
in manner to insure the bes1
results. They not only went te
explore an unknow region, but te
make such report of their. dis.
coveries as would be of the ut
most practical value to the world
There was no adventure and NJ
failure. Theyproceeded with gooe
judgment, with patience, ant
with firm resolution. Their ap
pointed task was fraught will
far-reaching consequences andbe
set with unknown dangers. Th'
expedition lay far beyond tn
frontier and the reach of ait
should grave peril arise. W.
must measure the undertaken,
from the environment of the tim
in which it was laid. The cour
= age which calmly braves unseel
peril is often OF higher orde
than that which confronts know
dangers.
The Exposition logically fol
lows the Exposition which com
1nemorated the Louisiana PuI
chase. 1t appropriately supple
ments it. They both irresistibl
suggest our obligation to Thoma
Jefferson. We do well to reca
his service with the acquisitio
from France of the Provence {
Louisiana and his organizatio
of the Lewis and Clark expos
ton which opened the way to
zone Of American civilization
We may we'll pause to give trit
ute to his lofty genius, his pr
found, far-seeing wisdom, an
! his service to the cause of huma
liberty and progress upon tn
continent. The fruit of his Sc
vices will bless mankind ft
ages.
William Mckinley, one of tt
greatest and most beloved
Americans we'll said in his la
speech that s'expositious are Il
tine-keepers of progress. /" The
denote Our growth in trade al
commerce, in industry and know
edge and in the arts and science
They assemble the fruit of Il
genius and endeavor of the pc
pie of the country and of Il
world Each succeeding exno.