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small portion of English blood in our
VEINS. In no way alters the other
TACT that this nation was founded by
Ehglishmen. by the Cavalier and the
puritan. Their tongue, law, litera.
lure, the fund of their common
thought. made an Inheritance which
an oil us share. and marked deep tho
ines along which we have developed,
IL was the men of English stock who
did most In casting the mold into
which our national character was run.
Let me furthermore greet all of
You. the representatives Of the people
or continental Europe. From almost
every nation Of Europe we have drawn
some part of our blood. some part of
our traits. This mixture of blood has
gone ON from the beginning, and with
IL has gone on kind of development
unexplained among peoples of the
STOCKS from which we spring: and
hence today we differ sharply from,
and yet In some ways are fundamen.
tally akin 10, all of the nations of
Europe.
Again, let mo bid you welcome, re.
personalities of our sister Republics
or this continent. In the larger as.
poet. your interests and ours are itien.
neal. Your problems and ours are
III large part the same: and as we
strive to settle them. | pledge You
herewith on the part OF this nation
| the heartiest friendship anu good
will
FINALLY. let me, say II special word
OF greeting to those representatives
| or the Asiatic nations who make up
mat newest East which Is yet the
most ancient East, the East OF time
Immcmorial In particular, let me ex.
press word of hearty welcome to
me representative of the mighty Is.
land empire OF Japan; that empire,
which. In learning from the West, has
shown that IL had SO much, SO very
mnch. to teach the West In return.
Should be Only Generous Rivals.
To all of You here gathered | en-
press my thanks for your coming, and
extend to you my earnest wishes
Tor The welfare OF Your several ma
TOMS. The world has moved so far
mat 1t Is no longer necessary to be-
licve that one nation can rise only
ny thrusting another down. All far
sighted statesmen all true patriots.
lpuulnH
nations of mankind, M In their sew.
erai ways they struggle constantly
toward higher CT. 'liZation, n higher
humanity, may advance hand in
hand, united only In Il generous riv.
airy to see which can best do It's al
lotted work In the world. | believe
that there is rising tide in human
thought which tends for righteous
hehooVes us to guide through ra-
tionnl channels to sane conclusions.
md all of MS here present can well
afford to take to heart ST. Paul's
counsel: "lf 1t be possible as much
as lieth in you, live peaceably with
all men,"
Lesson of the Exposition.
We have met today to celebrate the
opening of the Exposition which It.
self commentaries the first perma-
nent settlement of men of our stock
In Virginia, the first beginning of
what has since become this mighty
Republic. Three hundred years ago
handful of English adventures,
who had crossed the ocean In what
we should now call cockle.boats. as
clumsy rs they were frail, landed i'm
dian-haunted waste, which then
stretched down to the waters edge
along the entire Atlantic coast. They
were 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 headwaters of the Rio Granae:
and the French, who at almost the
ct, In. a., "a.
Lawrence, we're likewise destined to
form permanent settlements on the
Great Lakes and in the valley of the
mighty Mississippi before the people
OF English stock went westward of
the Alleghenies. Moreover both the
Dutch and the Swedes were shortly
to found colonies between the two
\ sets OF English colonies, those that
grew up around the Potomac and
those that grew UP on what is now
the New England coast. Neverthe-
less. this landing ut jamestown pos
| sesses for us of the United States
an altogether peculiar significance,
and this without regard to our sew
eral origins. The men who landed at
jamestown and those who, thirteen
years later, landed at Plymouth, all
OF English stock, and their fellow
settlers who during the next few de-
cades 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 1t was still
young enough most easily. most read
lily, to take on the characteristics
which were 10 become part of it's per-
| manent life habit.
Soon Become Americans.
Yet let us remember that while
this early English colonial stock has
left deeper than all others upon our