Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-08
STORY OF NEW
FRANCE RETOLD
PRESIDENT AND DIGNITARlES
ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN
In Eloquent Speech Points to Factors
That Led to English Speech
From Atlantic to
Pacific

bratiOn of the three hundredJn ami
versary of the discovery of the Cham
plain country that promises no cessa-
ton of activities until far into the
night.
Early in the day the president mo-
tored to Cliff Haven, half a mile from
Bluff Point, where he addressed a large
gathering at the Catholic Summer
School of America. Returning later to
the Hotel Champlain. he received the
foreign ambassadors, Governors
Hughes and Prouty, members of the
New York state legislature and others
Of the guests.
Indians in Pageant
While this was going on the Indian
pageants, which have proved an at
tractive feature of the weeks celebra-
ton, were given on the floating islands
which have been towed up from Fort
Ticonderoga and anchored at the
mouth of the Saranac river.
Smith M. Weed, at his residence In
this city, entertained at luncheon the
presidential party and about eighty of
the distinguished guests, including Am
bassador and Nine. Jusserand, Ambas-
sador and Mrs. Bryce, Governor and
Mrs. Hughes, Governor and Mrs.
Prouty, Hon. Rodolph Lemieux and
Nine. Lemieux, Sir Alphonse Pellitier,
Root, Secretary of War Dickinson, Car
dinal Gibbons, Seth Low and members
of the New York and Vermont Cham
plain commission.
President Taft Speaks
President Taft was the principal
speaker at the Catholic summer school
and his welcome was a hearty one.
The edifice was packed to the doors.
AT the presidents right on the plat
form was Cardinal Gibbons and on his
left was Governor Hughes.
President Taft devoted his address
mainly to his dealings with the Cath
Ollie church in the Philippines as hav-
ing a bearing on the present celebra-
tion.
81 am not a Catholic" said he, but
have had in the last ten years great
deal to do with the Catholic church.
1 think we are reaching point in this
country where we are very much more
tolerant of everything and everybody
than in the past, and where we are
giving justice where justice ought to
be given.
I'VE are no longer cherishing the
narrow prejudices that come from de-
nomination bigotry and we are able to
recognize in the past these great prin-
ciples in religion and in Christian
faith and appreciate the virtues they
exhibited and follow the examples they
set for us.
Religious tolerance is rather a mod
ern invention. Those of us of Puritan
ancestry have been apt to think we
were the inventors of religious toler-
ance. Well, as a matter of fact, what
they were in favor of, if l can speak
for Puritan ancestry, was in having O.
right to worship God as they pleased
and have everybody else worship God
in the same way. But we have worked
that out now, and there has been a
great change, 1 am sure-and his emf
nence the cardinal will agree with me
even in the last twenty-five years
II am gratifed to say now that
every question between the church and
the state in the Philippines which were
so closely united that it seemed almost
impossible to make a separation of the
two-as it had to be made under our
constitutLon-has been settled fairly
and justly to both sides and no bad
taste or injustice exists on either side
with respect to those questions"
Cardinal Gibbons addressed the
gathering briefly when the president
had concluded. He expressed the
opinion that after the week of speech
making the presidents avoirdupois
will not be quite so much as it is
now"
Senator Roots Speech
The afternoon program included a
review of federal and state troops and
civic organizations at Plattsburg bar
racks, military exercises, the speakers
being the president, Ambassadors JUS
serand and Bryce, Postmaster General
Rodolph Lemieux Of Canada, Senator
Root and Daniel l.. Cady of New York.
Senator Roots was the formal his
torical address of the day, his topic
being "The Struggle for America"
Dwelling on the part played by the
Iroquois Indians in the early history of
America, Senator Root in an address
replete with historic facts paid a high
tribute to Samuel de Champlain and
to those French soldiers and explorers
who shared in the early struggle for
America.
He pointed out the influence which
the events attending the discovery OF
Lake Champlain 800 years ago had
upon the issue of the great struggle be-
tween France and Great Britain for
the control of the continent; "the
struggle between the two white races
for the opportunity to colonize and ex-
pand. and between the two systems of
law and civil polity for the direction
and development of civilization among
the millions who were to people the
vast region extending from the At
lantic to the Pacific and from the Rio
Grande to the frozen limits of the
north"
Only Two AdVersaries
'The conditions which limited the
powers and directed the purposes of the
various countries of Europe in the
early years of the seventeenth century
made it inevitable that the struggle
for American control should ultimately
become a single combat between France
and Great Britain" continued Senator
Root.
"Of all the peoples of Europe" he
said, "only the French and the English
possessed the power, the energy, the
and the occasion for expansion across
the Atlantic. The field and the prize
were for them, and for them alone.
Prom these two countries each pos
sessed of great power, each endowed
with noble qualities, proceeded the
colonists who were to dispute for the
possession of America.
'The world owes many debts toI
France" added Senator Root. mot the
least of these is the inspiration the
men of every race can find in the
noble examples of such explorers as
Niccolet and Duquesne and Montcalm.
and such missionaries as La Caron and
Braboeuf and Marquet.
Points to Causes.
'In all this interesting and romantic
story may be seen two great proXimateI
causes of the French failure and the
English success; two reasons why, from