Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-27
WELCOMES NATIONS
President Roosevelt at James,
 town Celebration.
WORLDS CHILDREN HAND IN HAND

Declares True Patriots should Work
 For Mankind's Higher Civilisa-
 tion = Grave Evils Must
 Be Checked.
 NORFOLK, Va, April 27.-From the firing of a sunrise salute of 300 guns by the United States army, through the picturesque review of the interna- tional fleet of war vessels anchored in Hampton Roads, through the cere- monies of dedication at which the, president spoke and down to late hour last night, when Mr. Roosevelt and his party repaired aboard the na- val yacht Sylph to spend the night in the lover bay, the opening day of the Jamestown Tercentennial exposition was crowded with many notable in cidents and complete success.
 Not the least impressive of the days events was the quick action of the president in assuming command of the situation in front of the crowded grand stand from which he spoke when panic seized the surging throng of spectators. Pressed against the guard ropes by thousands of eager persons in the rear of the gathering who were forcing their way forward, the safety of life and limb of those who had the more favored positions were endanger- ed. President Roosevelt had just been introduced by Harry St. George Tuck CT, the head of the Jamestown Expo sition company, when the disorder and unrest in the crowd reached its height and the civil guards in front of the grand stand seemed about to be swept from their posts. With the agility of schoolboy the president jumped up- on the table which had been placed in the speakers balcony and, waving his arms, cried out to the men of Virginia to live up to their traditions of gal lantry and cease the pushing and crowding which was threatening the lives of the women and children in the assemblage, throng which all but blocked the big grass covered plaza known as Lees parade. The trouble subsided as if by magic.
 The presidents address, after a cor dial greeting of welcome to represent atives of foreign nations, was chiefly devoted to rapid review of the found ing and growth of this nation.
 He said in part:
 "To all of you here gathered I ex- press my thanks for your coming, and l extend to you my earnest wishes for the welfare of your several nations. The world has moved so far that 1t is no longer necessary to believe that one nation can rise only by thrusting 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 in hand, united only in a generous rivalry to see which can best do its allotted work in the world.
 ''l believe that there is q rising tide in human thought which tends for righteous international peace-a tide which 1t behooves us to guide through rational channels to sane conclusions, and all of us here present can we'll af- ford to take to heart St. Paul's coun. sel, If it be possible, as much as lieth in you. live peaceably with all mem
 We have met today to celebrate the opening of the exposition which itself commemorates the first permanent set tlement of men of our stock in Virgin ia, the first beginning of what has since become this mighty republic. Three hundred years ago handful of English adventurers who had crossed the ocean in what we should now call cockleboats, as clumsy as they were frail. landed in the great wooded will derness. the Indian haunted waste, which then stretched down to the wa ter's edge along the entire Atlantic coast.
 Tn industrial matters our enormous prosperity has brought with 1t certain grave evils. It is our duty to try to cut out these evils without at the same time destroying our we'll being itself.
 At the moment the greatest problem before us is how to exercise such con trol over the business use of vast wealth. individual. but especially cor porate. as will insure its not being used against the interest of the public. while yet permitting such ample legitimate profits as will encourage individual in- itiative.
 "The wrongdoer, the man who swin- d.es and cheats. whether on big scale or little one. shall receive at our hands mercy as scant as if he commit ted crimes of violence or brutality.
 We are unalterably determined to prevent wronedoing in the future We have no intention of trying to wreak such an indiscriminate vengeance for wrongs done in the past as would con found the innocent with the guilty.
 This great republic of ours shall never become the government of a plutocracy. and 1t shall never become the government of a mob. God willing. 1t shall remain what our fathers who founded 1t meant 1t to be.
 "A government in which each man stands on his worth as a man. where