The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1915-03-26
VICE PRESIDENT
MARSHALL SPOKE
FOR PRESIDENT
Delivers Address at San Fran
cisco Formally Dedicating the
Pan-American Exposition; Re-
fers to Chief Executive as the
Peoples Peacemaker.
Declares Affairs of State Pre-
vented His Going to California
City and That He Seeks the
Good of the People Rather
Than His Own Pleasure.

Good Of the People Rather
Than His Own Pleasure.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 25.-
Characterizing the Panama-Paciic ex-
position as the "crystalization of the
dreams and thoughts of genius and
talent" Vice President Marshall to-
day spoke at the exposition, lauding
the state of California and the men
who made the exposition possible, and
in the name of the president of the
United States dedicated the exposition
in glorifcation Of the completion Of
the isthmian canal. He said in part:
II crave your sympathy and your
charity while for a few moments !
stand here commissioned to take but
not to fill the place of the president Of
the United States. In justice Of the
day Woodrow Wilson should be here.
The Office and the man would each
fittingly grace this occasion. But duty
said to him that justice to all the peo-
pie bade him stay in Washington. You
hope for continued peace. Do not for
get that he is your great peacemaker.
May the truth that he seeks your good
rather than his own, or your pleasure
tighten the disappointments Of this
hour. Befor the sunset bell shall pro-
claim the close Of this marvel of the
twentieth century, the president of the
United States hopes to meet you face
to face.
"California is state Of mystery, of
seeming madness and method, state
replete with art, science, literature,
law, order and material prosperity of
marvellous accomplishment. What the
: others took to be- the mutterings of a
mighty men in sleep, she has made the
all-compe}ling language of her peo-
pie. This exposition had to be to JUS
tify in the mind of man the potency of
dreams and visions over mere mater
ial things. 1t is in consonance with
the record Of this people. Sometime
in the hurrying rush Of restless men it
had to be, but it came sooner than it
otherwise would have come because
some one dreamed that here in this
sun-kissed cline there lie the seven
cities of Cibola.
"Surely he should not be charged
with being merely poetic in mind who
on this occasion boldly declares that
California is the product of a dream
and that this exposition is the COM
posite photograph Of dreamers. The
seven cities of Cibola have become
seventy-and-seven cities of culture,
wealth and character. The dream Of
the Anian strait has become reality,
south of Mexico it is true, but never
theless reality called the Panama
canal.
II am sure l express the thought of
the president and the hope of the Am
erican people when say that our
canal was built not only for glory or
great gain, but with a sincere desire
to make the whole world kin. There
are two gospels now instead Of one:
The gospel of good will has been sup
plemented with the gospel Of personal
contact. The gospel Of good will con-
tinues to be supreme, but nothing will
help it preach so loudly as those hu.
man agencies which eliminate distance
blend languages and give US sight as
we'll as knowledge each of the other
Il am quite sure that am but on
of countless throng in this republic
who regret that this altruistic worl
has a real or seeming defect in tn
charge of an injustice done a siste]
republic to the south. Let US not b.
too much dismayed this day by reaso,
of that fact. The American peopl'
are wise and they know he is not wis
who is not just. I look with confidenc,
for the early arrival of that good hou
when whatever wrong may have bee
done shall be righted and when ther
will be left no drop of bitter water t
flow in that channel which unites tn
seas.
"From the first to the present pres
ident of the United States wheneve
thought has been voiced on the sui
ject, that thought has been that "
exist for humanity's sake as much a
fo: our own; that we crave friend
relations with all people and entang
ing alliances with none. While ha
the world is in a rage indescribab
and unutterable, seeking to build MOI
uments out of clay kneeded in brotl
er's blood, sad-eyed and sober the go'
dess of our institutions seeks to ho
out to a warning world the oil,
branch of peace.
"Ostensibly am here in the nan
of the president of the United Stat
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