Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-07-24
FAIRBANKS MAKES
A SAOaI ADDRESS
CreelS Prince Of Wales on Behalf
of President and People of The
United States Prince is Gen.
trdl Figure in The Grand
Celebration


Wales was again the central figure
of the celebration yesterday evening
marking the 300th anniversary Of the
founding of Quebec. The prince "e-
ceived at the Place Des Armei tae
representatives OF France and the
United states, the mayor of Quebec,
and reviewed a long procession witch
represented the historical periods in
Quebecs life. This was followed by
display OF fireworks and a kanq let.
As representative of the Unite 4
states Wee President Fairbanks made
a short address, greeting the prince
In the name of the president of the
United States and reviewing the close
relationship between Britain and
America. He said in part:
Your Royal Highness: acknowl-
edge with grateful appreciation the
welcome which you so generously ex.
tend. The sentiments which you are
pleased to express with regard to my
country | receive with profound sem
sibility. They are renewed evidence
of that respect and cordial good will
which has so long existed between the
United states and Great Britain, and
VIII tend to strengthen and preserve
their amicable relations.
Ii is With unusual pleasure l bring
YOU greetings from the president and
the people of the United States, who
rejoice with you in the progress you
have made in the manifold ways
which make for the strength and
honor of great people. We are not
Indifferent to your welfare nor are
you Indifferent to ours. The blood of
common ancestry Is in our veins.
We have much in common. We glory
in many of the same traditions and
we have the same Jurisprudence. Our
standards of civilization are alike.
Here, side by side, owing allegiance
to different sovereigntes, we are, in
Gods providence, to work out our
destiny. We wish you that content
ment which comes from the cultiva-
tion of the arts of peaceful industry
under those political institutions
which are the guaranty of justice
and liberty among men.
The United States and Canada have
but fairly entered upon their careers.
Each has vast areas either sparsely
settled or unoccupied where many
q.
Many millions will be added to our
population, and to yours. We have
each made much advance in the
scale of civilization and are gratified
with the progress we have made.
Back of us lies a brief but honorable
history and before Us stretch illimit-
able opportunities. We confidently
believe that we are each destined to
play large and worthy part in the
progress of the human race upon the
western continent. We have no rival
ries except in the ways of peace. We
neither covet the others territory. We
covet only each others esteem. We
rest upon a common frontier more
than five thousand miles in length.
Ii is crossed and recrossed by instru-
mentalities of commerce which tend
to strengthen our neighborly ties.
There are no fortficatiOns upon our
frontier and no battleships upon the
waters which divide US, and we be-
lieve and fervently hope that there
will never be need of any defensive
preparation between US.
As we behold this majestic celebra-
ton in which the representatives of
different nations participate and wit
ness the manifestations of a genuine
fraternal spirit among them, we are
impressed with the thought that there
is no rational reason why nations
should resort to war. May we not,
on this theater of past conflicts, sur
rounded now by the impressive mon
uments Of peace, venture 10 hope that
the widespread movement which seeks
to insure the maintenance of peace
among the nations of the world with
out invoking the sword, may grow in
strength and at no distant day be-
come incorporated as a part of the
fixed policy of nations To advocate
measures to the maintenance Of in
tranquility, to endeavor to
substitute reason for force, Is not evil
dence OF any decay in the courage of
manhood of nations, but II is the
of the great truth that
modern civilization Is not a failure. II
Is a failure II II does not substitute
for force the serene and all-powerful
chamber OF reason and dellberation.
There is such a thing as righteous
ness among nations. Let them take
their differences into International
courts OF justice and there let reason