Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-05-01
APPEALS ID CH|VA[RY
 0F STRUGGLING CROWD
Jamestown Exposition Opened By President. .-.Opening Exercises.
 Roosevelt's Speech

! all of the nations of Europe.
 ] Again, let me bid you welcome, rep rescntatives 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 samc and as we strive to settle them. I pledge you herewith on the part of this nation the hcarticst friendship and good will.
 Finally, let me say n special word of greeting to those representatives of the Asiatic nations who make up that new est East which is yet the most ancient East. the East of time immcmorial. In particular, let me express n word of hearty welcome to the representative of the mighty island empire of Japan; that empire. which. in learning from the West. has shown that it had SO much, SO very much, to teach the West in return.
 To all of you here gathered I express my thanks for your coming, and 1 cX. tend to you my earnest wishes for the welfare of your several nations Tho world has moved so far that it is no longer necessary to believe that ono 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. higher humanity, may advance hand in hand. united only in n generous rivalry to see which can best do it's al. lotted work in the world. believe that there IS n rising tide in human thought which tends for righteous in. tcrnational peace; tide which it be- hooves us to guide through rational channels to sane conclusions; and all of us here present can well afford to take to heart St. Paul 's counsel: "If it be possible, as much as licth in you, live pcaccably with all mcn.'
 We have met today to celebrate the opening of the Exposition which itself commentaries the first permanent settlement of men of our stock in Vir. ginia, the first beginning of what has since become this mighty Republic. Three hundred years ago handful of English advcnturcrs, who had crossed the ocean in what we should now call cookie boats, as clumsy as they were frail, landed in the great wooded wild crness, the Indian haunted 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 al- ready Spanish settlements in Florida and on the headwaters of the Rio Gfnnde; and the French, who at almost the same time were struggling up the to form permanent settlements on the Great Lakes and in the valley of the mighty Mississippi before the people of English stock went westward of the Alleghenies. Moreover, both the Dutch and the Swedcs were shortly to found colonies between the two sets of Eng fish colonies, thoso that grew up around the Potomac and those that grew up on what is now the New England coast. Nevertheless, this landing at Jamestown possesses for us of the
 United States an altogether peculiar significance. and this without regard to
 our several origins. The men who
 landed at Plymouth, all of English stock, and their fellow settlers, who
 during the next few decades strcamcd
 in after them, were those who took the
 lead in shaping the life history of this
 people in tho colonial and revolution
 ary days. It was they who bent into
 definite shape our nation while it wal
 still young enough most easily, most
 readily, to take on the characteristic
 which were to become part of its per
 mancn, life habit.
 Yet let us remember that while thi'
 early English colonial stock has Jeff
 deeper than all others upon our nationa
 life the mark of it's strong twin indi vidualitics, the mark of the Cavalier and of the Puritan nevertheless, thi'
 stock, not only from its environment but also from the presence with it o other stocks, almost from tho begin ming began to be differentiated strong ly from any European people. As , have already said, about the time th' ! first English settlers landed here, th, Frenchman and the Spaniard, tn, : Swedc and the Dutchman, also cam,
 hither as permanent dwcllers, who lief their seed behind them to help shap and partially to inherit our natiOna { life. The German, the Irishman, am ? the Scotchmon came later, but still il r colonial times. Before the outbreak 0 ? the Revolution the American peopl, s not only because of their sur '. roundings, physical and spiritual, bu s because of the mixture of blood tha l. had already begun to take place. rcT , resented n new and distinct ethni ], type. This type has never been ike