Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-11
HIS MOTHERS STATE.
Roosevelt's Old Homestead 5 Reproduced at Jamestown.
PRESIDENT OK NATIONS UNITY.
Proud of His Georgian Ancestry, Proud of Blood, Half North. Half South, Executive Eulogixes
 Southern Empire State.


 NORFOLK, Va, June 11.-Bronght back to the Jamestown exposition by the formal opening of Bulloch Hall, the ancestral home of his mother at Roswell, Ga, and reproduced here as the Georgia state building, President Roosevelt was for the second time the central figure of an attractive exposi- tion programme.
 The celebration of Georgia day with military and naval spectacle was the feature of the day.
 E ,S1e president made speech as a part of the Georgia celebration and another at the convention of the Ma tional Editorial association in the Au- ditorium. He reviewed the parade of the military and naval forces, visited the negro exhibit, participated in the presentation of silver service by the state of Georgia to the battleship nam- ed for her, attended reception given at the Georgia building by Georglans alone in honor of himself and Mrs. Roosevelt and visited informally the New York state building.
 Every part of tEe exposition grounds except the War Path was covered by the president in his strenuous day.
 At the Georgia building the presi- dent said:
 T cannot express how deeply touch- ed I am at the action of the state of Georgia, my mothers state, the state from which draw half the blood in my veins, in erecting as the Georgia statehouse at the Jamestown exposi- tion replica of my grandfathers house at Roswell, Ga; the house in which my mother passed her youth and where she was married to my father Through the governor and other representatives of Georgia I de- sire from my heart to thank all her citizens. I am proud, indeed, of my Georgian ancestry and of the fac. that my grandfather's grandfather, Archi- bald BulIoch, was the first governor of the new state when the continental congress, of which he was also a mem- Der, declared that the thirteen states had become new and independent nation.
 Perhaps the very fact that I am half southern and half northern in blood and that for many years I was brought into peculiarly close associa- tion with the life of the great west makes it natural for me to feel with intensity the strong sense of kinship with every portion of our great com mon country, which should be the birthright of every true American. Since I have been president I have visited every state and territory with in the borders of the Union save such as can only be reached by sea. I have travelled from the Atlantic to the Pa cific. from the great lakes to the gulf. have spoken at country fairs, 10 col leges, to commercial and business or ganizations, to associations of profess sional men, to labor organizations, to men of every creed and percentage. The thing that has struck me most has been the essential oneness, the es- sential unity of our people.
 s'In the fundamentals I have found American citizens to be just about the same everywhere
 The president dwelt at length upon the peculiar problems of the, south, particularly urging the solution of child and woman labor in factories.
 Turning to the industrial problems of the whole republic. the president re- peated his demands for national laws for tho care of children. the control of corporations and the regulation of the relation between capital and labor. In particular he pointed out the impor- tance of the national employers lia- bility act. He declared that employers should assume the cost of all accidents to employees, whether caused by negli- gence or unavoidable.
 The president asserted that the trusts are laying waste all the natural resources of the country and declared for federal ownership of all the coal, oil and ranch lands which remain In possession of the government
 In his address to the National Edito- rial association the president repeated