The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-14
Members Of the Supreme Court, Diplomats
Senators, Con9ressmen and Public At
tend Exercises and Listen To the
Address Of President Roose.
55 Welt Today.
SIMILAR TO WASHINGTON'S
Act Of Over Century Ado When He Laid the Cor
ner Stone Of the First Capitol Buildind--An-
other Madnificent Edifice Added to the
Great White Structure Overlook
ind the Historic Patomac.

Washington, April 14.-In the pres
ence of a distinguished assemblage
with the president of the United States
taking q prominent part, with the su-yy
preme court, senate. house OF repre-
sentatiyes and diplomatic corps, as
/ spectators and before q large con-
course OF people, the corner stone of
the Office building for the house Of
Representatives was laid with impress!
ssive ceremonies this afternoon. q
The address Of the day will be made
tbya President Roosevelt Who will
speak on the Muck Rake Brigade;
The Official program as made Up fol-
ssiecsions. staFss span sled Banner
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ii, Laying of eornerstone BY grand
master of Naaons OF the District of
Columbia assisted nv ofhcers Of the
grand lodge. Fa ;5 IN Fl III I. 4 NV "a
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Address ~ Grand altlsr
cornst solo waltsr i. Smith. \;
AddreesJoseph O.. Callar, speak
er OF the house Of represent tatives. $ IS IS
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Z Selections-By the Marine band.
Address Jas. D. Richardson, for
mer representative from 4 Tennessee
and grand commando s6f the supreme
council of the Scottish Rite.
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Address BY the president Of the
United States. ,.s
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= A century and thirty years ago
George Washington, then president of,
the United States, assisting acting
grand master Of Masons Of Virginia.
and Maryland laid the cornerstone Of
the national capitol, Then the nation
had but four million people, and the
city of Washington but fodr thousand
inhabitants. s.s: 81 l53
Fifty-eight years later Millard Fill
more. then president of the United
States. laid the corner stone Of the
extension to the capitol, under equally
impressive ceremonies.
Today. with even more impressive
ceremonial, the corner stone of the
largest Office building solely devoted
to legislation will be laid with Masonic
fraternity as active participants as
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THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH.
President Roosevelt, taking as his
subject The Muck-Rake Brigade"
spoke as follows:t MS p 55S /
Over q century ago Washington laid
the corner stone. of the capitol in what
was then little more than a tract of
wooded wilderness here beside the!
! Potomac. We now find 1t necessary,
to provide by great additional build
ings for the business of; til govern
ment This growth in the need for the
housing Of the government is but a.
proof and example OF the way, In
which the nation has grown and the
sphere of action of the national i gOv-
ernment has grown. We now admins
lister the affairs OF nation In which.
the extraordinary growth Of popula-5l
ton has been Outstripped by the
growth 0fiwealth and the growth In
complex interests. The material
problems that face us today are not
such as they were in Washington's
time. but the underlying facts OF huss
manfnature are the same now as they
were then: Under altered external
form We war with the same tender
:Eiea toward teEil that MAra evident IN
;sWaShingtonS time. and are helped bv
1 tho same tendencies for good. It IL
about some OF thass that wish 10
say O. word today. .ts =
In Bunyan's PilErims Progress you3
may recall the descripti lon Of the Man
With the Muck-rake. the man VINO
could look no WAY but downward.
with the fmuck-rake In his hand: who
WAS offered q celestial crown for his
muck-rake. but who would neither
look up nor regard th ecrown he was
offered but continued to rake to HIM
self the NTH of the fioor. M
In Pilgrims Progress the Man with