The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-10
President Roosevelt Talks From
Standpoint of Kinsman.
Discusses Relations of the En-
plOyer and EmplOye.
WITHOUT LAWSUITS.
WOrkingmen Should Be Com
penSated for Injuries.
Advocates National and State
Legislation Along This Line.

Norfolk, Va, June 10-This is Georgia
Day at the jamestown exposition and
the exercises at the state building in
Guided an address by President Roose-
Welt who spoke as follows:
can not express how deeply touch
ed / am at the action of the state of
Georgia, my mothers state, the state
from which 1 draw half the blood in
my veins. in erecting as the Georgia
state house at the jamestown EXPOSE
ton replica of my grandfather's
house at Roswell, Ga: the house in
which my mother passed her youth
and where she was married to my
father. 1t is an act of gracious cour-
tesy and consideration which l very
deeply appreciated: and through the
governor and other representatives of
Georgia L desire from my heart to
thank all her citizens. Georgia's his
tory Is unique, for she alone among
the original thirteen colonies and the
subsequent new states added thereto,
was founded with consciously benev-
oient purpose. with the deliberate in
tent to benefit mankind by upbuilding
Il commonwealth along carefully plan
ned lines of social, political, and re-
ligious liberty and justice. Ogle-
thorpe. the founder of Georgia. was a
true apostle of philanthropy 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 lana ana creed,
and closed to every form of political,
religious. or industrial bondage or
persecution. His colony welcomed
alike those who fled from political or
social tyranny, and those, whether
Christian or Jew, who sought liberty
for conscience's sake. 1t was a high
and honorable beginning; and 1 am
proud, indeed, of my Georgian ances-
try. and of the fact that my grand
fathers grandfather, Archibald Bull
loch, was the first governor, or as the
title then went. president of the new
state. when the Continental congress,
of which he was also a member. de-
clared that the thirteen states had
become a new and Independent nation.
Since then Georgia has grown at a
rate even more astounding than the
rate of growth of the nation as a
whole; her sons have stood high in
every field of activity. intellectual or
physical; and rapid though her prog
ress has been in the past, it bids fair
to be even greater in the wonderful
new century which has now fairly
opened.
Sense of Kinship.
Perhaps the very fact that I am
blood. and that for many years 1 was !
brought into peculiarly close associa- |
ton with the life of the great west |
makes it natural for me to feel with |
intensity the strong sense of kinship
with every portion of our great com |
mon country, which should be the |
birthright of every true American. |
Since 1 have been president 1 have |
visited every state and territory with |
in the borders of the Union, save such |
as can only be reached by sea. / have |
travelled from the Atlantic to the Pa |
cific from the Great Lakes to the |
Gulf. have spoken at country fairs, |
to colleges, to commercial and BUSH /
ness organizations, to associations of |
professional men, to labor organiza-
lions, to men of every creed and par !