South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-25
Vice PreS't Marshall Delivers
Address in Which He LaudS
Work of PreS't Wilson Dur
ing Trials.
DESCRIBES HIM AS
GREAT PEACEMAKER
Says Exposition Is the Crystal
IlzatiOn of Thoughts and
Dreams of Many Centuries
and Many Men.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 25.-
More than 100000 people were pres
ent Wednesday afternoon at the for
NAL dedication OF the Panama Pacific
exposition. Vice Pres't Thomas r.
Marshall, special envoy of Pres't VIII
son, delivered the dedicatory address.
When Vice Pres't Marshall appeared
a fleet of warships assembled off the
esplanade OF the Marina, fired u sa-
lutte Of l Guns. a great procession of
army and navy forces over the frounds
preceded the ceremonies.
Mr.. Marshall's Address.
The vice president spoke as follows:
Il crave your sympathy and your
charity while for few brief moments
[ stand here commissioned to take,
but not TO fill. the place Of the pres-
dent OF the United States. a cOnse-
Grafton So duty helps to dull the edge
of personal sorrow In justice to the
day, Woodrow Wilson should be here.
The Office and the man would each
dttingly grace this occasion. You re-
gret no more keenly tnan do l his alb
sence and the lack of his words,
which would move and thrill and sat
sfy you. But duty said to him that
justice to all the people bade him
stay in Washington. You hope for
continued peace. Do not forget that
ne is your greatest peacemaker May
the truth that he seeks your good,
rather than his own or your pleas
ure. tighten the disappOintments of
this hour Before the sunset bell
shall proclaim the close of this mar
vel of the goth century, the president
hopes to meet you face TO face.
Meanwhile, l shall not long impose
upon your patience
The unfaiths are rapidly diSap-
pearing. The impossible is constant
ly succeeding. The agnostic may sur
vive this age but the doubter dies
with it. A dream is no longer fig
ment of the Imagination. A thought
has ceased to be mere Vagary of gray
matter. A deed is as much the un-
real as it is the real No longer do
We laugh at dreams, sneer at thoughts
and accept only completed work The
hour stands not so much aghast as
amazed. The wonderful has become
the commonplace and the unhOped
for hourly arrives.
This exposition snot an accom-
plished fact. 1t is crystallized
thought. Each building is not SO
much wood and steel and stone and
bronze and gold. Each is a dream.
Z OF aye the NOTlQ mas DeGn Sldu TO
doff its hat to those who in the realms
Of mind or matter have pointed out
the ways in which the sons and
daughters Of Adam have lOnged to
walk and always the world has been
ready with hammer and nail and
cross to cruelty the finders of those
paths wherein custom has not taught
humanity to walk.
Thus far, the ages have doubted
the dreamer, have listed him among
the incompetent, have smiled or
sneered as fancy moved them, and
have boldly declared that real worth
10 humanity comes from the fashion
ings Of the hard-headed utilitarian.
Today we see how false that view has
been, and at last the dreamer comes
into his own, the real Vanishes the
vision becomes the substantial.
Wealth Does Not Destroy.
no one despiseS the luxury here.
everywhere apparent. No one snCers
at the pOmp and ceremonial of this
occasion. Every one rejOices that the
republic has such state as California.
and that California has always had a
citizenship which dared to follow its
dreams and make Of them imposing
realities.
Wealth does not destroy a people
Luxury does not necessarily enervate.
4 people dies when II loses Its vision,
WIN il ceases to dream its dream and
when from its loins there come forth
no more pioneers and pathhnders.
From the first 10 the present presi-
dent OF the United States. whenever
thought has been voiced upon the sub
iect. that thought has been that We
exist for humanity's sake as much as
for our own. that we have friendly
relations with all people and entang-
ling alliances with none
while half the world is in a rGge
indescribable and unutterabl bic. king
10 build monuments out of clay knead-
cd in a brothers blood sad-eyed and
sober the goddess OF our institutions
seeks 10 hold out to a warning world
the olive branch OF peace. Il has not
been out mission 10 impress our laws.
our customs. and our civilization upon
alien races We have learned that
while the code OF ethics, morals and
religion consists Of the thou shalt
nOts' Of life. the few have feaSted
while the many greaw faint.
MONDAY OF Accomplishments.
when the annals of the republic
= re written. they viii not be forgotten.
and their children viii thus learn that
the conservation Of their fathers made
this dedication possible Myself *
dreamer. / hold IL 10 be divinely true
that their vision has not ended with
this splendid work The spirit OF the
republics prophecy is upon them.
They behold the good will OF mankind
and they see through his canal COM
ing from all the ports Of the earth
TO their own and going thence again.
stately argosles bearing the comforts