Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-26
No P[U1OCRANC
AND No MOB RUE
President Roosevelt, in James
town Address, Discusses Pres
ent Day Problems
EACH MAN TO STAND ON WORTH
President Extends Greetings Of the M.
ton to Foreign Representatives Res
views History Of the Country and
Takes Bold Stand in Defiance Of
Evil Combinations Of Capital and
Labor.

| Evil Combinations Of Capital and
| Labor.
Norfolk, April 26.-One of the big
! features attending the opening OF the
! ter-centennial exposition today was the
address of President Roosevelt, which
followed that of President Tucker, OF
/ the exposition management. Presidenu
Roosevelt was given great ovattons
and thousands who could get in hear
| ing distance of the speakers stand lis
| tened attentively to his address, which
occupied less than an hour in Its de-
| livery. The president said in part:
At the outset I wish to say word OF
special greeting to the representatives
of the foreign governments here press
| 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
loins and by the addition OF newcomers
from abroad, was to make the people
which one hundred and sixty-nine
years later assumed the solemn res
sponsibilities and meighty duties Of
complete independence.
In welcoming all of you must say 9
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 myself
am one have but very small portion
of English blood in our veins, In no
way alters the other fact that this ma
| ton was founded by Englishmen, by
the Cavalier and the Puritan. Their
| tongue, law, literature, the fund OF
| their common thought, made an In
heritance which all OF US, share, and
marked deep the lines along which we
have developed, It was the men Of
English stock who did most in casting
| the mold into which our national char
acter was run.
Grseting TO Foreign Nations.
| 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 a kind OF development
unexampled among peoples of the
stocks from which we spring; ana
hence today we differ sharply from.
and yet in some ways are fundamental
! ly akin to, all of the nations Of Eu-
rope.
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, pledge you herewith on the
part Of this nation the heartiest friends
ship and good will.
A jolly for the Japs.
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 an
cient east, the east Of time immemor-
ial In particular, let me express q
word of hearty welcome to the repre-
sentative of the mighty island empire
Of Japan; that empire, which. in learn
ing from the west, has shown that It
had so much, so very much, to teach
the west in return.
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 thrusting an
other down. All farsighted statesmen.
all true patriots. now earnestly wish
that the leading nations Of mankind as
in their several ways they struggle
constantly toward higher civilization.
a higher humanity, may advance hand
in hand, united only IN a generous ri
valry to see which can best do Its all
lotted work In the world. believe
that there is a rising tide In human
thought which tends for righteous in
ternational peace; tide which 1t be-
nooves us to guide thru rational cham
nels to sane conclusions; and all Of us
here present can well afford to take to
heart st. Paurs counsel: III 1t be pos
sible. as much as lieth in you, live
peaceablv with all men,"
Present Day Problems.
After reviewing at length the early
history Of our country, the hardships
endured and the obstacles overcome,
the president spoke of present day
problems. He said:
We can not afford 20 forget the
maxim upon which Washington insist
ed that the surest way to avert war
is to be prepared to meet It. Neverthe-
less the duties that most concern 10 Of
this generation are not military but
social and Industrial. Each community
must always dread the evils which
spring up as attendant upon the vory
qualities which give It succesA We Of
this mighty western Republic have to
grapple with the dangers that spring
from popular self-governnsnk tried on
a scale incomparably vastef chan ever
before in the history Of mankind, and
from an abounding material prosperity
greater also than anything which the
world has, hitherto seen.
AS regards the Arst set sf dangase
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