The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-26
teach the west in return.
The World Moves.

To all Of you here gathered I express
my thanks for your coming. and L ex-
tend TO You my earnest wishes for the
welfare OF your several nations The
world has moved so far that it is no
longer necessary TO believe that one ma
ton can rise only by thruSting another
down. All farsighted statesmen, all
true patriots. now earnestly wish that
the leading natiors of mankind. as in
their several WAYS they struggle con-
stantly toward a higher ciTilIza ton, a
higher humanity, may advance hand in
hand. united only in a generous Tiv-
airy TO see which can best do its al
lOtted work in the world I believe
that there IS a rising tide in human
thought which tends fer righteous in
ternational peace; a tide which It be-
channels to sane conclusions; and all
of US here present can well afford to
take to heart St Paurs counsel: IF
1t be possible. as much as heth in you,
live peaceably with all men,
we have met today to celebrate the
opening OF the exposition which itself
cor.mem0 the first permanent set
uemeHt of man OF our stock in Virginia,
the first beginning of what has since
become this mighty Republic. Three
hundred years ago a handful of Eng
liSh Adventures, who had crossed the
ocean in what We should now call
cockle-bOats, as clumsy as they were
frau landed in the great wooded Wild
e-ness, the Indian-haUnted waste,
which then stretched down to the wa
ter's edge along the entire Atlantic
coast They We're not the first men
Of European race to settle in what is
now the United States, for there were
already Spanish settlements in Florida
and on the hFadWaters of the Rio
Gra7de: and the French, who at al
mist the same time wer.- struggling Up
the St Lawrence. were likewise des-
tined to form permanent settlements
on the Great LaEes and in ths valley
of the mighty Mississippi before the
people Of English stock went west
ward of the AIIeghenies. Moreover,
both the Dutch and the Swedes were
shortly to found colonies between the
two sets of English colonies, those that
grew up around he Potomac and those
that grew up on what Is now the New
England coast Nevertheless, this land
ing at jamestown possesses for US or
the United States an altogether pecu-
liar significance, and this without re-
gard TO our several origins. The men
who landed at Jame=tOwn and those
who thirteen years later. landed a |
Plymouth, all of English stock. and
their fellow settlers hwo during the
next few decades streamed in after
Them Were those who took the lead IN
shaping the life history of this people
in the colonial and revolutionary days
1t was they who bent into definite
shape our nation while II was stun
young enough most easily. most readi-
-
were 10 become part of its permanent
life habit
Yet let US remember that while this
early English colonial stock has left
deeper than al others upon our ma
-ionaI life the mark of its strong twin
.ndividuah:ies. he mark of the cav
aIier and % the Puritan -neverthe-
less this stock, not only from its en-
hut also from the presence
with il Of other stocks. almost from
the beginning began TO be differ
antiated strongly from any Euro
pean people. As have al
ready said, about the time the
first English settlers landed here,
the Frenchman ard the Spaniard. the
Swede and the Dutchman, also came
hither as permanent jewellers. who
left their seed behind them TO help
shape and partially 70 inherit our ma
-ionaI life. The German, the Irish
man. and the Scotchman came later,
but still in colonial times Before the
outbreak of the revolution the Amer
lean people. not only because of their
physical and spiritual.
but because of the mixture of blood
that had already begun to take place.