The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-18

pestilence and massacre comes down to
us. A very peaceful, promptly prosperous
community is born beside the Hudson, and
in the valley of the Hackensack, of the
Passaic and of the Raritan and beside the
Delaware.
Life from the first forms itself and
goes Its way in strangely facile sort for
the ready, hardy settlers. There was the
Englishman indeed ere many years with
his pervading, dominant strength. There
before him was the Dutchman, the Hol-
lander, with his readiness to till the soil
or make a trade. There was the French
man, the Huguenot, with his fneness Of
spirit and alertness of mind. There. was
the Scotch-Irishman With his eager brain
and aggressive life. There were the Ger
man and the Swede with their virtues to
blend in the new rising race. If anywhere
there be a State that singularly displays
In its origin and enduring character the
nature of our national commonwealth, 1t
surely is New Jersey within her narrow
borders. She seems in her springs of life
to be Mt the very heart OF the Union. In
her completely of race as in her compact
ness of space and people, lies perhaps
some secret of her STRENGTH. Nor has hts-
tory failed to give her distinguished place
In the making and advancing of the ma
ton. Over her soil passed pioneers into
great pennsylvania and the nearer west,
for with New York she mad the gateway
of the land.
A the years passed and the struggle
for independent life was on, New Jersey
became the pathway of war and as well
the home of council. over her fields, as
nowhere else, the hosts of war went back
and forth In long and bitter and crucial
conflict; a field of the cloth of gold to
us who glory in the triumph sealed at last
at yorktown, not many miles from here,
Treading Monmouth battlefield. one en-
tiers into the spirit of traplc yet Triumphant
making of our freeland. So council, as
well as battle, claimed the soil of Prince
ton: again and again the chosen makers
of our State trod her paths and sat In
her halls as they did their exalted work.
From her house itself went her Presi-
dent. Witherspoon, second to none in wis
dom and zeal for the new undertaking..
From old Queens College there went
TO field and council F~relinghuysen and
ors. From her went Simeon Dewitt,
geographer-in-chief with washington, to
Yorktown. So, until this day has New
Jersey cast into the treasury of national
life net only the large and vigorous life
of a loyal people, but noble leaders, not a
few IN the council chamber and in all
public achievement; and New Jersey, q
highway of travel. of warfare, and of
council central on the Atlantic coast con-
tinues yet a great pathway of
this side which has sprung up everywhere
varied and fourishing institutions.
Manufacturing hounds, bringing
wealth and reputation. and sturdy popu-
lation. Towns are alive with the hum OF
wheels and from her stOrehouseS go end
less products to all parts of all land and
the world. in agriculture. | believe, 1t
is said no State equals her variedness,
lne variety Oh harvest DIOQlClS. AlfHDHI
g iery crop apt to our United States can
be cultivated on her soil, which thus be-
comes the finest experimental field in all
the land as well as the source Of supply
for a wide and various demand. In the
science of agriculture and of manufactur-
ing and of trade, therefore, she claims
no small eminence; while In the sph ere
of common and higher education she
claims an honored place.
In the province of New Jersey alone
of all the colonists We're two college
fn9aHInfFaaa thu ana NJ IuninaAtaa aAl
the other at New Brunswick. There large
service for the Stats and Ration through
all the years, there constantly increasing
strength and accomplishment, are a nat
ural pride of the people among whom,
and so much for whom, their work is done.
1t would be q long, though to me a great
full. task to rehearse at all the intellectual
worth thus trained and contributed to the
national life; l can but mention such
names as Madison, Paterson and Ellsworth,
princeton graduates, and leaders IN the
sen, Bradley and Hobart, graduates of
Rutgers, and masters In the later admin
istering of II.
I'm New Jerseys Intellectual circles
have been first wrought out not a few of
the great principles on which our honor
and prosperity maintain. in her courts
guided ruling policies of our land; in her
battles of the forum not a few issues
nationwide been determined. Hers was the
decision first hat a law contrary to the
~ ~ AANf Aah NAAACIl nv
fundamental principle is more important
to the dignity and endurance OF the ma
tion. II Is no boasting spirit that SO much
of New Jerseys history n value is dis
played. It is In the spirit simply of an hon
est selt-reSpect and of Il deep desire to
make our work of cOngratulation to others
today mean as much as Ii may.
And yet again. / am convinced that the
message of the day must be in at least a
little measure a voice for the future; in
remembrance of the past and In a reckon
fnp pf the prognnf dqV lie "a loqenn of tho
virtues thai laid sure foundation: that
have led splendid progress and must still
leaven a noble and enduring commonwealth,
There is a birthright which we must not
despise-whose desplsing wolld brand us
as such despising branded Esau. 1t is 4
birthright not simply of land and Of a
wellnlgh perfect constitution. but as well
of tradition and custom, OF spirit and life,
of honor and unselfishncss. OF reverence
and faith. The safeguard OF the nation is
most of all its standing fast to the prin-
eiples that were the wisdom ana the
strength Of the fathers n which are the