Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-27
At JAMESTOW .
Chief Executive Of United states Deliver.
Address at Opening.
EACH GENERATION HAS HAD ITS PROBL,G
Spirit OF CoIonists, RevoIutionists and
Founders of Republic should
Animate Men In work
of To-day.

NORFOLK, Va, April 8.-Presidept
Henry ST. George Tucker delivered the first
address at the opening Of the jamestown
exposition and introduced President Roos-
evelt He dwelt long on the growth OF
human freedom. tracing the development
Of the idea through Anglo-saxon history
TO It's elimination in America. Closing. he
said:
1t has been your proud privilege To do
much to turn the public mind toward high
Ideals, and we humbly trust that II may yet
De your privilege to do much more for the
challenged to battle those who. i'm YOUR
Judgment, would curtail this ancient prin-
clpie, the nnal outcome cannot be IN doubt
an iron nerve, a dauntless courage-w,ith
which you are happily possessed-wiu he
your support throughout the conflict II
was In the darkest days of our revolu-
uonary period, when the cause OF liberty
seemed doomed, that washington, Virgin
IA great son, declared. Leave me but a
west Augusta, and l will rally around me
the men who viii raise our bleeding country
from the dust and set her free" The de-
bgendants OF these men still abide on Vir-
glnia soil; you know the mettle OF their
pastures. As the successor Of Washington.
IN your great office. II you feel that the
by domestic instead OF foreign foes let me
invite you standing on the sacred soil OF
virginia, TO which liberty Is an indigenous
plant and patriotism an evergreen, TO plant
the banner Of liberty once again in the
mountains Of West Augusta, a country en-
riched with the best blood OF Americans
north and south. and there rally around
you her sons whose men OF might today
are worthy Of their sires and with them
from the dust and set her free"
America can have no higher mission
among the nations Of the world than in the
simple working out in their perfection OF
the great principles for which / plead this
gay; principles which received their first
baptism In the waters Of the James and
their last In the blood of patriots from
every state in the union.
The lesson that this day teaches and
mat II Is Intended TO enforce is that OF
honest introspection, that we may INQUIRE
now far our lives and our conduct have
Ieen controlled by these principles for which
our tathers Fought and died. Preserve
them we must.
Ladies and Gentlemen: I stand before
you today living monument to the self
control of the president OF the United
States. Had he possessed less of this vir-
tue than he does I should long since have
been numbered with those whose history
is finally written. for, in season and out Of
season, by day and by night, and at al
hours beginning with May and ending with
the close OF April, have l. without con.
science, bombarded him with requests. in.
voked him and sought his counsel In the
interest OF the jamestown exposition, unit
/ doubt not that In the quiet hours Of his
seolusion 0f he has any he has otter
asked himself the question, whether life
was really worth living. Had he slain m,
In the exercise OF the law OF self-defense
even without the Interpolation OF the piles
Of "dementia Americana" he would quickly
have been acquitted by any Jury on tht
ground Of justifable homicide.
Ana so with great pleasure l will now
satisfy your waiting hearts by presenting
to you the one man in the United States
who has had greater opportunities than any
other for the advancing OF this enterprise
selah-and has never failed in one-the bes
friend the jamestown exposition has evei
had, the best friend any enterprise hai
ever had, the president OF the United states
Crowd Is Unruly.
President Roosevelt began his address a
1908 o'clock. That he might be better seer
and heard he mounted a table. which
raised him high above the heads of hi;
audience He was greatly concerned by tn,
danger IN, the crowd to women and chill
. dren. To discourage enthusiasm he said
y at the outset of his speech that he SHOULD
ask the audience Ito make the speech a.
much a monologue as possible"
Speaking directly to the crowd which