The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-04-26
WITH FIGHTING sQuADRoNs
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Your problems and ours are in large
part the same: and as we strive to
settle them, l pledge you herewith on
the part of this nation the heartiest
friendship and good will.
Finally, let me say special word OF
greeting to those representatives OK
the Asiatic nations who make up that
newest East which is yet the most
ancient East, the East Of time 1mme-
mortal. In particular, let me express
a word Of hearty welcome to the rep
resentative of the mighty island en-
pire of Japan: that empire, which.
in learning from the West, has shown
that it had SO much, so very mucn, TO
teach the West in return.
To all of you here gathered l eX-
press nv 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 believe that one
nation can rise only by thrustlng an
other down. All farslShted statesmen,
all true patriots now earnestly WISH
that the leading nations of mankind,
as in their several ways they struggle
constantly toward higher clVlllza-
ton. a higher humanity, may advance
hand in hand. united only in gen.
erous rivalry to see which can best 90
its allotted work in the world. / be-
lieve that there is rising tide in hui
man thought which tends for right
eous international peace; tide which
it behooves us to guide through ra-
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and all of us here present can we'll
i afford to take to heart st. PauFs coun-
sci: If it be possible, as much AS
! leth in you, live peaceabiy with all
| men,
/ We have met today to celebrate the
opening Of the exposition which ltstelt
; commentaries the first permanent set
! Element of men of our stock in VIZ
Einia, the first beginning OF what mas
since become this mighty repubnc.
/ Three hundred years ago handful or
English adventures, who had crossed
the ocean in what we should now call
cookie boats, 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 They were not the first men
of Eurorean race to settle in what is
now the United States. for there were
already Spanish settlements in Flori-
da and on the headwaters of the Rio
Grande; and the French, who at almost
the same time were struggling up the
ST Lawrence. were likewise destined
to form permanent settlements on the
Al, Of a
! mighty Mississippi before the people
of English stock went westward OF
the AlleghenieS. Moreover, both the
Dutch and the Swedes were shortly 10
found colonies between the two sets OF
English colonies, those that grew up
around the Potomac and those that
grew up on what is now the New Eng
land coast Nevertheless, this land
ing at jamestown possesses for us OF
the United States an altogether pc
culiar significance, and this without
regard to our several origins. The
men who landed at jamestown and
those who, thirteen years later, land
ed at Plymouth, all of English stock
and tneir fellow settlers VINO during
the next few decades, streamed in at
ter them, were those who took the lead
in shaping the life history of this peo-
pie in the colonial and revolutionary
days 1t was they who bent into def
mite shape our nation while it was
still young enough most easily, mos,
readily to take on the characteristics
which were to become part of it's per-
manent life habit.
Yet let us remember that while this
<~1r zee
deeper than all others upon our ma
tional life the mark of it's strong twin
Municipalities. the mark of the Caval-
Ter and of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
this stock, not only from its environ
ment but also from the presence with
it of other stocks, almost from the be-
ginning began to be differentiated
strongly from any European people
AS have already said. about the time
!, the first English settlers landed hero
the Frenchman and the Spaniard. the
Swede and the Dutchman. also came
hither as permanent dwellers who left
their seed behind them to help shape
and partially to inherit our national
life. The German, the Irishman. and
the Scotchman came later, but still ir
. colonial times. Before the outbreaks
of the revolution the Americanpeople
not only because of their surroundings
physical and spiritual, but because OF
the mixture of blood that had already
begun to take place, represented a
new and distinct ethnic type. This
type has never been fixed in blood.
All through the colonial days new
waves of immigration from time to
time swept hither across the ocean,
now from one country now from an
other. The same thing has gone on
ever since our birth as a nation: and
for the last sixty years the tide of
immigration has been at the full. The
newcomers are soon absorbed into our
eager national life. and are radically
and profoundly changed thereby, the
! rapidity of their assimilation being
! marvellous. But each group of new
Corners. as it adds its blood to the life,
also changes it somewhat and this
change and growth and development
have gone on steadily. generation. by
generation throughout three centuries
The pioneers of our people who first
landed on these shores on that event.
full day three centuries ago, had be-