The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-05-03
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EXPOSITION OPENED

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Roosevelt Touches Button
and Sets Things Moving.
ADDRESS MADE FROM sRAkY BOX.
The Opening Was Auspicious Despite
the ,Incompleteness ofthe Exposition
Building Crowds Were Large and
Would Have Been Enormous If the
Transportation Facilities Had Been
Sufficient to Convey Visitors to the
Exposition Grounds.
jamestown Exposition Grounds,
Va. (Special) Three hundred guns
at sunrise, 500 guns at 9 o'clock,
y prayer, speech, a golden key
pressed by the President of the Unit
ed States, a thousand fiage unfurled
from the rooftops of a new Magic
City; then more guns booming from
The sides of visiting battleships, from
the clean-cut hulls of our own match
less fieet, and from the gray walls
of Fortress Monroe. Thus was the
exposition begun, which celebrates
the 300th anniversary of the first
English settlement in America, and
Is designed to demonstrate to the
world the progress our country has
made in art and science, in commerce
and invention, since the followers of
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through the wilderness and laid the
foundations of the Virginia common
wealth.
Guns, Flags And Music.
The guns and flags and martial
music which predominated at the
spectacular opening of the big Vir-
ginia fair would have led the unini-
tiated to believe that this is all
a war show. But this is only the out
ward display-the front of war that
guards industry and of peace. With
in the gtaes of the exposition the
only signs that smack of power and
force are the blue-coated policemen
and the militiamen on duty to save
the crowds from this own enthus-
iasm and to point the way for stray
Cling strangers to the great buildings
where are shown the products OF
human industry and peace.
This Is the program that was fol-
lowed at the formal opening of the
exposition:
/. Opening prayer by the Rt. Rev.
Alfred Magill Randolph, bishop of
the diocese of Southern Virginia.
2. Address and introduction of
the President of the United States
by the Hon. Harry st. George Tucker,
president of the jamestown EXPOSE
ton Association.
Mr. fuckers address was histori-
cal, giving events that led to the in
dependence of the colonies and re-
1ating incidents that occurred at
jamestown.
Roosevelt's Address.
He introduced President Roose-
welt, who said, in part:
"At the outset / wish to say
word of special greeting to the repre-
sentatives of the foreign govern
ments here present They have come
to assist us in celebrating what was
in very truth the birthday of, this
nation, for it was here that the col
whose growth from their own loins
and by the addition of newcomers
from abroad, was to make the people
which 169 years later assumed the
solemn responsibilities and weighty
duties of complete independence"
The President began with England
and Ireland. said he had but small
amount of English blood in his veins,
and went down welcoming each ma
ton represented.
To The Japs.
To the Japs he said:
I'm particular, let me express a
word of hearty welcome to the repre-
sentative of the mighty island en-
pire of Japan; that empire, which,
in learning from the West, has shown
that it had so much, so very much,
to teach the West in return.
ITO all of you here gathered l ex-
press my thanks for your coming,
and I extend to Won NV earnest
wishes for the welfare of your several
nations"
He then spoke of the significance
of jamestown and the growth of the
COuuIIy lTOm that u the pT6S6uI
time. After abiding to the civil
war the President said:
The Blue And The Gray.
"oh. my hearers, my fellow coun-
trymen, great indeed has been our
good fortune; for as time clears away
the mists that once shrouded brother
from brother and made each look
as through glass darkly' at the
other, we can all feel the same pride
in the valor, the devotion and the
fealty toward the right as it was
given to each to see the right, shown
alike by the men who wore the blue
and by the men who wore the gray
Some Epigrams.
ss4Ve cannot afford to forget the
maxim upon which Washington in
sisted, that the surest way to avert
war is to be prepared to meet it.
Either people must govern them
selves or they must submit to being
governed by others.
tfTheVs can nravanf the N God of CIV.