New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-27
PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
Patriotic Lessons DraSOn from Set
Element at jamestown.


,..rsolk. Va. April 26-President Roosevelts
.s,sss at The opening of the jamestown Ex
..,ion was follows;
4, the outset ] wish 10 say word Of special
ZINC 10 the representatives Of the foreign
bis.-n,nents here present. They have come ia
eo.... as ia celebrating what was in very truth
- birfhday of this nation for II was here that
~ eolonists first settled whose incoming whose
noHfb from their own loins and by the addi-
80 III newcomers from abroad. was TO make
~ reople which one hundred and sixty-nine
ssrs later assumed the solemn responsibilities
- veichty duties Of complete Independence
n welcoming all of you / must say a special
a.. FIRST to the representative of the TeoDle
y creat Britain and ireland. The fact thar
= T,anv Of our people, of whom as IL happens
Snveelf am one, have but very small portion
- English blood IN our veins. in no way alters
~ other fact that this nation was founded by
S-n,5ishnleu. by the Cavalier and the Puritan
.L1-eir tongue law, literature. the fund of their
or,noon thought made an Inheritance which an
~ ms share, and marked deep the lines along
bicb we have developed. II was the men Of
-,1glsh stock who did most in casting the mould
40 which our national character was run
Tot me furthermore greet all of you the
representatives Of the people OF Continental
Europe. From almost every nation OF Europe
- have drawn some part Of our blood some
- III our traits This mixture OF blood has
Tone on from the beginning, and with II has
zone on q kind Of development uneKampled
among peoples Of the stocks from which we
Fprfng: and hence to-day We differ sharply
sTom end yet in some ways are fundamentally
sldn IT, an Of the nations Of Europe.
Agar let me bid you welcome representatives
- o1r sister republics of this continent In
tbe larger aspect your interests and ours are
IDENTICAL. Your problems and ours are IN large
mart the same; and as we strive to settle them
! pledge You herewith on the part OF this nation
the heartiest friendship and good viii.
Finally, let me say a special word OF greeting
20 those representatives Of the Asietic nations
1rho make UP that newest East which is vet the
ynost ancient East, the East Of time immemo-
rial In particular, let express a word Of
hearty welcome TO the representative Of the
nightly island empire OF Japan, that empire
which in learning from the West, has shown
that il had much, so very much. TO teach the
West IN return.
NATIONS TO ADVANCE HAND IN HAND
To all Of you here gathered express my thanks
FOR your coming. and extend TO you my earnest
wishes for the Welfare OF your several nations
The world has moved so far that 81 is no longer
necessary 10 believe thai one nation can rise
only By thrusting another down. All farsighted
statesmen, all true patriots, now earnestly wish
that the leading nations OF mankind as in their
several ways they struggle constantly toward q
higher civilization, a higher humanity, may adj
vance hand IN hand, united only IN a generous
rivalry TO which best do fits allotted
work in the world. ] believe that there IS a ris-
fng tide in human thought which tends for
righteous international peace; a tide which it
hahooves US TO guide through rational channels
10 sane conclusions; and all Of us here present
Oan well afford TO take 10 heart St. Paul's coun-
eel: IF II be possible as much as neth in you,
live peaceably with all men,"
We have met to-day to celebrate the opening
OF the exposition which itself commentaries the
arst permanent settlement OF men OF our stock
n Virginia, the first beginning Of what has since
become this mighty Republic. Three hundred
years ago a handful Of English Adventures who
had crossed the ocean in what we should now
call cookie boats, as clumsy as they were frai
landed In the great wooded wilderness. the Ind
ian haunted waste. which then stretched down
TO the waters edge along the entire Atlantic
coast. They were not the first men OF Euro
pean race TO settle in what is now the United
States, for there were already Spanish settle
ments in Florida and on the head waters Of the
Rio GFande; and the French who at almost the
same time were struggling up the St. Lawrence
were likewise destined to form permanent set
Elements 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, these that grew up around
the Potomac and those that grew up on what is
now the New England coast Nevertheless. this
landing 81 jamestown possesses for us OF the
United States altogether peculiar signih-
oanoe, and this without regard TO our several
origins. The men who landed at jamestown and
those who. thirteen years later. landed at Plym-
0uth. al OF English stock and their fellow set
tiers who 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. II was they
who bent into definite shape our nation while it
was stiu young enough most easily, most read
fly. 10 take on the characteristics which We're TO
become part Of its permanent life habit.
SHAPING NATIONAL LIFE.
Yet let US remember that while this early Eng
hsh Colonial stock has left deeper than all others
upon national life the mark Of its strong
twin individualitieE, the mark Of the cavalier
and OF the PuTttan-nevertheless this stock. not
only from its environment but also from the
presence with II OF other stocks. almost from
ne beginning began 10 be differentiated strongly
nom any European people. AS l have already
SAID. about the time the first English settlers
landed here the F'renchman and the Spaniard,
The Swede and the Dutchman, also came hither
as permanent jewellers, who left their seed be-
hno them 20 help shape and partially TO inherit
our national life. The German, the lr1shman
and the Scotchnan came later, but still in Colo
nal times. Before the outbreak Of the Revolu-
uon the American people. not only because or
tneir surroundings physical and spiritual. but
because OF the mixture OF blood that had al
ana distinct ethnic type. This type has never
oeen fixed in blood All through the Colonial
Gays new waves Of immigration from time 10
tIne swept hither across the ocean. now from
one country, now from another The same thing
mas gone ever since our birth as nation;
ana Tor the last sixty years the tide OF immigra-
uon has been at the fun. The newcomers are
soon absorbed into our eager national life, and
are radically and profoundly changed thereby.
ne rapidity Of their assimilation being mar
Feilous But each group OF newcomers, as II
ACES Its blood 10 the life. also changes II some
Nnat, and this change and growth ana develop
ment have gone on steadily. generation by gen
tfauon, throughout three centuries
The pioneers Of our people who first landed on
tnese shores on that eventfui day three centuries
ago had before them a task which during the
eary years was Of heaFtbreaking danger and
lLncuty. The conquest Of a new continent Is
iron work. People who dwell IN old civilizations
snq md that therein so much Of humanity's lot
nard are apt 10 complain against the con-
unions as being solely due TO man, and 70 speak
q lie could be made easy and simple II there