Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-05-02
EXPOSITION OPENS
PRES ROOSEVELT AND MAN@.
PROMINENT MEN PRESENT.
THE GRAND NAVAL PAGEANT
President Spoke of Triumphe and
Trials of Men Who Had ..ade
Exposition PossiblG.

Norfolk, Va, April 27-The James
town tercentennial exposition-a land
and water display such as never was
attempted in this country or foreign
shores, was opened yesterday
Incident to the opening President
Roosevelt reviewed from the deck of
the Mayfower the yesss 5 anchored
in Hampton roads.
AT sunrise the ceremonies were be.
gun by the United States artillery
| firing salute of 800 guns to usher in
the Gay. This was a signal for the
trend of humanity to railroad trains,
street cars and boat lines which from
that moment poured people into the
grounds.
A distinguished gathering received
the president anl his party at Dis
covery landing.
After the chorus had sung the Off
faced the multitude. A spontaneous
outburst of cheering greeted him.
When the president of the eXposi-
ton concluded it was some minutes
before President Roosevelt could pro.
cesd with his address. The people
again and again gave vent to their
enthusiasm. AS he pressed the gold
button which formally opened the
exposition is was the signal for the
unfrrling of thousand and more
flags on the various buildings At the
same time signal was given to the
| United States and foreign warships
and to the garrison at Fort Monroe
and all fired salute to the union.
When the echoes of the last gun
died away all of the bands on the eX-
| position grounds played the "Star
| Spangled Banner and the troops
saluted the national anthem by pre-
senting arms and all persons present
barred heads.
The president said in part:
| The rongdoer, the man who swim
dies and cheats, whether on a big
scale or a little one, shall receive at
our hands mercy as scant as if he
committed crimes of violence or bru-
| tality. We are unalterably deter
mined TO prevent wrongdoing in the
futCre;s we have no intention of trying
to wreak such an indiscriminate
vengence for wrongs done in the past
as would confoundI the innocent with
the guilty. Our purpose is to build
up rather than to tear down. We
show ourselves the truest friends of
property when we make it evident
that we will not tolerate the abuses
OF property. We are steadily bent on
| preserving the institution of private
property; we combat every tendency
toward reducing the people to econ
omlc seryitude; and we care not
whether the tendency is due to sin
lister agitation directed against all
! property, or whether of the predatory
classes whose anti-social power is
UNNECESSARILY increased because of
the very fact that they possess wealth.
| Above all, we insist that while
facing changed conditions and new
problems, we must face them in the
spirit which our forefathers showed
when they founded and preserved this
republic. The cornerstone of the re-
public lies in our treating each man
on his worth as a man, paying no,
heed to his creed, his birthplace, or
his occupation, asking not whether
he is rich or poor, whether he labors
with head or hand; asking only
whether he acts decently and honor
ably in the various relations of his
life, whether he behaves well to his
family, to his neighbors, to the state.
We base our regard for each man on
the essentials and not the accidents.
We judge him not by his profession,
not by what he has acquired Of this
worfd's goods. Other republics have
fallen, because the citizens gradually
grew to consider the interests of
class before the interests of the
whole, for when such was the case
it mattered little whether it was the
poor who plunderel the rich or the
rich who exploited the poor; in either
event the end of the republic was at
hand"
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