The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-04-26
PRESIDENT.
Continued from Page One

Ooh"hueu ITOm rage One
sentative of the people of Grea,
Britain and Ireland. The fact tha,
so many OF our people, of whom as
1t happens l myself am one, have but
very small portion of Enlish blood
In our veins, in no way alters the
other fact that this nation was found
ed by Englishmen, by the Cavalier
and the Puritan. Their tongue, law,
literature, the fund of their common
thought, made an inheritance when
all OF us share, and marked deep the
lines along which we have developeo
IL was the men of English stock whu
diu most in casting the mold into
which our national character was
run.
Let me Furthermore greet all of YOU
me representatives of the people of
Continental Europe. From almosy
every nation of Europe, we have
drawn some part of our blood, some
part of our traits. This mixture OF
| D.ood has gone on from the begin
nlng and with 1t has gone on a k;rc
,of development unexampled among
peoples OF the stocks from which we
spring; and hence today we differ
sharply from. and yet in some wayg
are Fundamentally akin to, all OF the
nations of Europe.
Again. let me bid you welcome. rem
resentatlves 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
settie them. pledge you herewith on
the part of this nation the heartiest
friendship and good will.
Finally. let me say a special word
of greeting to those representatives OF
the Asiatic nations who make up that
newest East. which is yet the most
ancient East, the East of time i'm
memorial. In particular, let me
express a word of hearty welcome to
the representative of the mighty ISL
and empire of Japan; that empire,
which, In learning from the West, has
shown that 1t had so much. so very
much, to teach the West in return.
TO all of you here gathered. l ex-
press my thanks for your coming
ana 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 be-
ucVe tiiat one nation can rise only
py thrusting another down. All far
sighted statesmen. all true patriots.
now earnestly wish that the leading
nations OF mankind, as in their sew
eral ways they struggle constantly
toward higher civilization, a higher
humanity, may advance hand in hand
united only In generous rivalry to
see which can best do its allotted
work In the world. 1 believe that
there 10 rising tide In human
thought which tends for righteous
International peace; tide which II
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. PauTs
counsel: IF II be possible. as much
as .iieth in you, live peaceably with
all men,
We have met tolay to celebrate the
opening of the Exposition which itself
commentaries the first permanent
settlemen of men OF our stock in Vir-
ginia. the first beginning of what
has since become this mighty Repub-
lie. Three hundred years ago,
handful of English adventurous, who
had crossed the ocean in what we
should now call cookie boats, as
clumsy as they were frail, landed in
the great wooded Wilderness the In
dian-hauntcd waste, which then
stretched down to the waters 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 already
Spanish settlements in Florida and on
the headwaters of the Rio Grande;
and the French who at almost the
sama time Wara ctrupoIinu IN fba CT