Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-05-01
ROOSEVELT AVERTS PANIC AT EXPOSITION

time swept hther across the ocean, now frsm one country, now from an. other. The same thing has gone on ever since our birth as nation; and for the last sixty years the tide of i'm migration 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 assimilation being marvel. ous. But each group of newcomers, as it adds it's blood Co 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 evcntful day three centuries ago, had before them a task which during the early years was of hcartbrcaking danger and difficulty. Tine conquest of new con. tincnt is iron work. People who dwell ! in old civilizations and find that there in so much of humanity's lot is hard, are apt Co complain against the condi | tions as being solely due to man and to speak as if life could be made easy and simple if there were but virgin con. tinent in which to work. IL is true that the pioneer life was simpler, but it was certainly not easier. As matter of fact, the first work of the pioneers l in taking possession of n lonely wilder ness is so rough, so hard, so dangerous that all but the strongest spirits fail. The carly iron days of such conquest search ont alike tho weak in body and tho weak in soul. In the warfare against the rugged stcrnness of prim cva Nature, only those can conquer who arc themselves unconqucrable. IL is not until the frs, bitter years have passed that the life becomes easy enough to invite n mass of newcomers, and so great are the risk. hardship, and toil of the early years that there always exists threat of lapsing bnck from civilization.
 The history of the pioneers of James town. of the founders of Virginia. illus tratcs the truth of 9ll this. Famine and pcstilcncc and war mcnaccd the little band of daring men who had planted themselves along the edge of a drowning continent. Moreover. as men ever find. whether in the tiuicst frontier community or tn the vastcst and most highly organized and complex civilized society. their worst foes were Tn their bosoms. Disscntion. distrust. the in ability of some to work and the un- willingness of others, jealousy, arrog' ancc and envy, folly and la2incss-in short all the shortcomings with which we have to grapplc now, were faced by those pioneers, and at moments threat tha,r ..shnl. .ntarnrtaA xtfh nh. solutc ruin. It was some time before the ground on which they had landed supported them, in spite of its potential fertility. and they looked across the sea for supplies. At one moment 80 hopeless did they become that the whole colony embarked, and was only saved from abandoning the country by the opportunc arrival of help from abroad.
 At last they took root in the land, and were already prospering when the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth. In a few years n great inflow of settlers began. Four of the present States of New England were founded. Virginia waxed apace. The Carolinas grew up to the south of it, and Maryland to the north of it.. The Dutch colonies be tween. which had already absorbed the Swedish, were in their turn absorbed by the English. Pennsylvania was | founded and. later still, Georgia. There were many wars with the Indians and with the dauntlcss captains whose ban. | ners bore the lilies of France. At last the British flag flew without rival in all eastern North America. Then came the successful struggle for nation al independence.
 For half a century after we became n separate nation there was compara' lively little immigration to this country | Then the tide once again set hther, and has flowed in evcr-increasing size until in each of the last three years n greater number of people came to these shores than had landed on them during the entire colonial period. Generation by generation these people have been absorbed into the national life. Gen. orally their sons, almost always their grandsons. are indistinguishable from one another and from their fellow. Americans descended from the colonial stock. For all alike the problems of our existence are fundamentally the same, and for all alike these problems change from generation to generation.
 In the colonial period, and for at least century after its close, the con quest of the continent, the expansion of our people westward, to the Ale ghcnics, then to the Mississippi, then to the Pacific, was always one of the most important tasks, and sometimes the most important, in our national life. Behind the first settlers the conditions grew easier, and in the older-settled regions of all tho colonies life speedily assumed much of comfort and some thing of luxury; and though generally it was on n much more democratic basis than life in the Old World, it was by no means democratic when judged by our modern standards; and here and there, as in the tidc-watcr regions of Virginia fl genuine nristrOcrncy grew