The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-03-20

States, and II pOSS1Dle, all the In
glish speaking people of the earth
shall be invited to participate a1f
where shall be displayed h pro
ducts of peace and the fruits of fret
institutions in all realms.
1T is the opiaion of the general as
! sembly Of Virginia that such exposf
ton should be held at some place
adjacent to the waters of Hampton
Roads, wherein the navies of all ma
lions may rendezvous in honor of the
gers of the deep to establish the col
ony."
And in the Act it further declared
"The company snail select a suitable
name designating the said exposition,
which name shall be commensurate
with the great significance of the ev-
ent it commentaries, and shall con
tain the name of no city. 1t shall al
or elsewhere a suitable permanent
memorial of such character as il may
seem most appropriate n proper
the execution of a memorial at James
town to be subject to the consent and
TIE design to be subject to the appro-
val of the Association for the Preser-
walton of Virginia Antiquities"
On March 3, 1905, Congress passed
an act which declared in part:
Whereas it is desirable to CONNIE
@ro ~ f+4;,- o-l oo-,o,r;o+o
manner the birth of the American IA
ton, the first permanent settlement
of English-speakipg people on the Am
erican continent, made at jamestown,
Va, on the 18th day of May, 1907, in
order that the great vents of Ameri-
can history which nave resulted there
from may be accentuated to the pre-
sent section of the Commonwealth of
Virginia where the first permanent
settlement was made conspicuous il
history of the American nation by
reason of the vital and momentous
events which have taken place there
in the Colonial, Revolutionary and
Civil War eras of the nation, inclul-
iiS hol III liz IloI pSi II SCI
Element of the English speaking peo-
pie, but also the scene of the CAPT
tulation of Lord CORVALLIS at York
town, and the scene of the first naval
conflict between armor clad vessels,
the Monitor and Merrimac; therefore
be it enacted that there shall be in
augurated in the yea 1907, on and
near the waters of Hampton Roads.
in the State of Virginia as herein pro
Vided, an international naval, marine
and military celebration, beginning
May 18th, and ending not later than
November 1. 1907.
The act appropriated $250,O0O for
the expense of the celebration, when
includes $4,000 for a permanent mon
ument upon the place of the first per
manent English settlement at James
town, aad authorized the President
to tissue a proclamation of the cele-
bration setting forth the event to be
commemorated, inviting foreign ma
naval vessels and such representa-
tons of their military organizations
as may be practicable, and to have
such portions of our Army and Navy
assembled there during the said ceie-
bration as may be compatible with
the public service" the militia of
the several States were also invited
to participate.
This celebration directed by con
gress is in close proximity both in the
time and place. TO the jamestown
Ter-Centennial Exposition organized
under the law of Virginia, and it was
undoubtedly intended as an aid to
that exposition, but the two arrange
ments are entirely separate in con
troll and in character. Congress en-
tered into a direct natural participa-
ton in the exposition by a law passed
in 1906, which will be presently e.
planned.
Officers of the Army and Navy are
obedient to law, the loyal servants CT
the people, n they do no indulge
in commentator or criticism of their
IilSIS- DuI II may EOG nc IIIiDI Cp[i
for one of them to point good reas-
ons for the act of Congress and the
appropriateness of participation by
the Army and Navy in the great ma
tional event, but keeping in view that
their presence will not be the main
feature but will be collateral and sub
sidiary to the arrangements and OBJ
iects of the jamestown Ter-Ce1ten-
NAL Exposition, a congregation of
peace and for war.
1t may be affirmed that there would
be no exposition in 1907 but for the
past services of military and naval
bodies. Had the English navy been
crushed and destroyed by the Span
ish Armada in 1888, the English set
tlement of Virginia would not ave
been effected; and a history of this
land may have been made by anoth-
people. In the Colonial and Revo-
Iutionary Wars of our country the
military and naval forces have borne