The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-27
ADDRESS OF
 THE PRESIDENT Warm Words of Greeting to Representatives of
 All the Nations at
 Jamestown.
OUR GROWTH AND CRISES
ENORMOUS PROSPERITY HAS BROUGHT CERTAIN GRAVE
 EVILS.

EVILS.
 Duty of the Nation to Try to Cut Them Out Without Destroying Its Well-Be- ing--An Era of Combination Alike in the World of Capital and in That of Labor-Great Problem Is How to Ex- ercise Such Control Over Business Use of Vast Wealth as to Insure It's Not Being Used Against Public In- terest-Stute to Preserve as We'll as to Reform.
 The text of the address of President Roosevelt at the formal opening of the Jamestown exposition yesterday fol- lows:
 Address of President Roosevelt
 At the outset wish to say word of special greeting to the representatives of the foreign governments here pres ent They have come to assist us in celebrating what was in very truth the birthday of this nation, for 1t was here that the colonists first settled, whose incoming, whose growth from their own Joins and by the addition of new corners from abroad, was to make the people which one hundred and sixty nine years later assumed the solemn responsibilities and weighty duties of complete independence.
 In welcoming all of you must say a special word, first to the representative of the people of Great Britain and Ire- land. The fact that so many of our people, of whom as it happens I myself am one, have but a very small portion of English blood in our veins, in no way alters the other fact that this na- tion was founded by Englishmen, by the Cavalier and the Puritan. Their tongue, law, literature, the fund of their common thought made an inher- itance which all of us share, and mark ed deep the lines along which we have developed. It was the men of English stock who did most in casting the mold
 
 run.
 Let me furthermore greet all of you, the representatives of the people of continental Europe. From almost every nation of Europe we have drawn some part of our blood, some part of our traits. This mixture of blood has gone on from the beginning, and with 1t has gone on kind of development unexarl- pled among peoples of the stocks from (which we spring; and hence to-day we { differ sharply from, and yet in some ways are fundamentally akin to, all of the nations of Europe.
 Again, let me bid you welcome, rep resentatives of our sister republics of this continent. In the larger aspect your interests and ours are identical Your problems and ours are in large part the same; and as we strive to set tie them I pledge you herewith, on the part of this nation, the heartiest friend ship and good will.
 Finally, let me say special word of greeting to those representatives of the Asiatic nations who make up that new est east which is yet the most ancient east, the east of time immemorial. In particular, let me express word of hearty welcome to the representative of the mighty island empire 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.
 To all you here gathered express my thanks for your coming, and ex- tend 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 trusting 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 higher civilization, higher humanity, may advance hand in hand, united only in a generous rivalry to see which can best do it's allotted work in the world l believe that there is a rising tide in human thought which tends for righteous international peace; tide which it behooves us to guide through rational channels to sane conclusions; and all of us here present can well af- ford to take to heart St. Pauls coun- sel. 'If 1t be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peacably with all men"
 We have met to-day to celebrate the opening of the exposition which itself commemorates the first permanent set clement of men of our stock in Vir- ginia, 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 cockle-boats as clumsy as they were frail, landed in the great wooded wild erness, the Indian-haunted waste, which then stretched down to the wa ter's edge along the entire Atlantic coast They were not the first men of European race to settle in what is now the United States, for there were al- ready Spanish settlements in Florida