The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-06-11
PROUD OF HIS ANCESTRY
Congratulations on Southern Progress
Mingled With Sound Advice.

Norfolk, Va, June 1O.-This was
Georgia day with the Jamestown ex-
position and the opening of Bullock
Hall, a replica of the early home of
President Roosevelt's mother at Ros
we'll, Ga, erected as the Georgia state
building, was the feature that drew
President Roosevelt to the exposition
for a second visit. s
From the time the president and
Mrs. Roosevelt and their distinguished
guests were landed at the government
pier at 10:40 O'clock this morning un-
til their departure at 4:37 o'clock this
afternoon, every minute was occupied.
The president spoke in the Georgia
building from the reviewing stand and
in the afternoon addressed the con-
yention of the National Editorial as
soeiation in the exposition auditorium.
On both occasions he was given a
hearty welcome.
The schedule arranged was fol-
lowed to the letter, and when the
MayaoWer weighed anchor at 5 o'clock
and the party started on its return
trip to Washington, an unusually
strenuous day was closed without an
incident of note having occurred.
The Presidents Address.
cannot express how deeply touched
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
State house at the jamestown exno-
sition 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.
It is an act of gracious courtesy and
consideration which very deeply ap-
preciate; and through the governor
and other representatives of Georgia
/ desire from my heart to thank all her
citizens. Georgia's history is unique,
for she alone among the original 13
colonies and the subsequent new
states added thereto, was founded with
a consciously benevolent purpose, and
with the deliberate intent to benefit
mankind by upbuilding a commonwealth
along carefully planned lines of social,
political, and religious liberty and
justice. Oglethorpe, the founder of
Georgia, was true apostle of philan-
thropy and of equality of opportunity
for all. His set purpose was to found
a state the gates of which should be
open to the oppressed of every land
and creed, and closed to every form
of political, religious, or industrial
welcomed alike those who fed from
Welcamed alike those who fled from
political or social tyranny, and those,
l..erty for conscience's sake. It was
nigh and honorable beginning; and
I am proud, indeed, of my Georgian
ancestry, and of the fact that my
grandfather's grandfather, Archibald
Bulloch, was the first governor, or as
the title then went, president of the
new state, when the continental con-
gress, OF which he was also a member,
declared that the 13 states had become
a new and independent nation. Since
then Georgia has grown at rate even
more astounding than the rate or
growth of the nation as whole; her
sons have stood high in every field OF
activity, intellectual or physical; and
rapid though her progress has been
in the past, it bids fair to be. even
greater in the wonderful new century
which has now fairly opened.
Perhaps the very fact that am half
southern and half northern in blood,
and that for many years was brought
into peculiarly close association with
the life Of the great west, makes il
natural for me to feel with intensity
the strong sense OF kinship with every
portion of our great common country
which should be the birthright OF
every true American. Since I have
been president I have visited every
state and territory within the borders
of the union, save such as can only be
reached by sea. I have travelled from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the
Great Lakes to the Gulf. have spok