The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-04-26


ry nation of Europe we have draw
some part of our blood, some par
of our traits. This mixture of bloo
mas gone on from the beginning, an,
with 1t has gone on kind of develop
ment unexampled among people of tn
stocks from which we spring; an,
hence to-day we differ sharply from
a1d yet in some ways are fundament
ally akin to, all of the nations of Eu
| rope.
Again, let me bid you welcome. re
presentatives of our sister Republic!
| OF this continent. In the larger aspec
your interests and ours are identical
Your problems and ours are in large
part the same; and as we strive tt
settle them, 1 pledge you herewith OF
the part of this nation the hearties
friendship and good will.
Finally, let me say a special wor6
of greeting to those representatives
of the Asiatic nations who make vi
that newest East which is yet
the most ancient East, the East OF
| time immemorial. In particular, lei
| me express a word of hearty welcome
to the representative of the mighty is
land empire of Japan; that empire
which, in learning from the West
has shown that it had so much sc
very much, to teach the West in re
| turn.
To all of you here gathered 1 ex
press 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 it
is no longer necessary to believe that
| one nation can rise only by tnrusting
| another down. All farsighted states
men, all true patriots, now earnestly
| wish that the leading nations of man
kind, as in their several ways they
| struggle constantly toward a higher
| civilization, a higher humanity, may
| advance hand il hand, united only
| in a generous rivalry to- see which
can best do its allotted work in the
world. / believe that there is ris-
| ing tide in human thought which tends
| for righteous international peace; a
tide which it behooves us to guide
Through rational channels to sane
conclusions; and all of us here present
can well afford to take to heart st.
Pauls counsel IF it be possible, as
much as lieth in you, live peaceably
with all men,"
We have met today to celebrate the
opening of the Exposition which itslf
commentaries the first permanent set
tlement of men of our stock in Vir-
ginia the first beginning of what has
since become this mighty Republic.
Three hundred years ago a handful
of English adventurers. who had cross
ed the ocean in what we should now
call cookie boats, as clumsy as they
are frail, landed in the great wooded
wilderness, the Indian-naunted waste,
which then stretched down to the wa
ter's edge along the entire Atlantic
coast. They were not the first men
of the European race to settle in
what is now the United States, for
there were already Spanish settle
ments in Florida and on the headwat-
ers of the Rio Grande; and the French
VINO at almost the same time were
struggling up the st. Lawrence, were
likewise destined to permanent settle
ment on the Great lakes and in the
valley of the mighty Mississippi be
fore the people of English stock went
westward of the Alleghenies. More
over, both the Dutch and the Swedes
were shortly to found colonies be-
tween the two sets of English colonies
those that grew up around the Poto-
mac and those that grew up on what
is now the New England coast. New
ertheless, this landing at jamestown
possesses for us of the United States
an altogether peculiar significance.
and this without regard to our several
jamestown and those who, thirteen
years later, landed at Plymouth, all of
English stock, and their fellow-settlers
who during the next few decades sire
AIMED in after them, were those who
took the lead in shaping the life his
tory of this people in the colonial and
revolutionary days. 1t was they VINO
bent into definite shape our nation
while it was still young enough most
easily, most readily, to take on the
characteristics which were to become
part of it's permanent life habit.
Yet let us remember that while this
early English colonial stock has left
deeper than all others upon our nation
al life the mark of it's strong twin in
dividualities, the mark of the Cavalier
and of the Puritan-leverthele this
stock not only from it's environment
but also from the presence with 1t
of other stocks, almost from the begin
ling began to be differentiated strong
ly from any European people. AS 1
have already said, about the time the
Frencnmen and the Spaniard, the
Swede and the Dutchman, also came
hither as permanent dwellers, wlo
left their seed behind them to nelp
shape AID partially to inherit our ma
tional life. The German, the Irish
man, and the Scotchman came later,
but still in colonial times. Before
the outbreak of the Revolution the
American people, not only because of
their surroundings, physical and spir-
itual, but because of the mixture of
blood that had already begun to take
place, represented a new and distinct
ethnic type. This type has never been
fixed in blood. All through the colo
NAL days new waves of immigration
from time to time SWEET hither across
the ocean, now from one country, now
from another. The same thing has
gone on ever since our birth as a ma
ton; and for the last sixty years the
tide of immigration has been at the
full The new comers are soon abb
sorbed into our eager national life,
and are radically aid profoundly chan
ged thereby, the rapidity of their as
similation being marvellous But each
group OF new comers, as it adds its
blood to the life, also changes it some
what, and this change and growth
and development nave gone on stead
lily. generation. by generation through
out three centuries
The pioneers of our people who first
landed on these shores on that event
full day three centuries ago, had be-
fore them a task which during the
early years was of heartbre aking dan