Evening star., 1938-07-08
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
|, MARIETTA, Ohio. July 8.-Fol-
lototng Is the tert OF President
Rooseuelt's speech today as 0tpen
out In Advance for newspaper pub
Hcution:
Long before 1888 there were white
men here, spying out this land Of
Canaan" An intrepid outpost breed
they were-the scouts and the skir-
mishes Of the great American migra-
tion. The sight Of smoke from neigh
boris chimneys might have worried
them. But Indians and redcoats did
not.
Long before 1888, at Kaskaskia and
Vincennes, with scant help from the
seaboard, they had held their beloved
wilderness for themselves-and for us
with their own bare hands and their
own long rifles. But their symbol is
Vincennes, not Marietta.
Organized Colonization.
Here, with all honor to the scouts
and the skirmishers, we celebrate the
coming Of different type Of men and
women-the first battalions of that Or
gani1ed army Of occupation which
transplanted from over the Alleghenies
whole little civilizations that took root
and grew. They were giving expression
to genius for organized colonization,
carefully planed and ordered under
law.
Ths men who came here before
178S came q Lief Erickson,s men to
vineland. in . spirit al Of adventure.
But the men and women Of the Ohio
company who came to Marietta came
rather IKE the men and women of
the Massachusetts, Bay Company to
Boston, an organized society, unafraid
to meet temporary adventure, but
serious in seeking permanent security
for men and women and children and
homes Many of them were destined
to push on, but most came intending
to stay. Such people may not be the
first to conquer the earth, but they
always last possess it.
Right behind the men and women
who established Marietta $50 years
ago moved that instrument Of law
and order and co-operation-govern-
ment. A representative Of the Ma
tional Government entered Marietta
to administer the Northwest Terri
tory under the famous Northwest Or
dinance. And what we are celebrat-
ing today Is this establishment Of the
hrst civil government west Of the
original Is States.
Stresses Three Provisions.
Three provisions Of the Northwest
Ordinance I always like to remember.
It provided that mo person de-
meaning himself in . peaceful and
orderly manner shall ever be nolested
on account of his mode Of worship
or for religious sentiment in the said
territory"
It provided that religion, morality
and knowledge being necessary to
good government and the happiness Of
mankind, schools and means Of edu-
cation shall forever be encouraged"
And it provided for the perpetual
prohibition Of slavery in the territory.
Free, educated, 0od-fearing men
and women-that Is what the 13
States hoped the new West would
exemplify. It has well fulfilled that
hope.
Every generation meets substantially
the same problems under its own Diff
ferent set Of circumstances. Any one
speculatipg on our great migration
westward Is struck with the human
parallel between the driving force be-
hind that migration and the driving
force behind the great social explora-
ton we are carrying on today.
Yearning for Security.
Most Of the people who went out
to Ohio in 17SS and who followed
wave on wave for another hundred
years went to improve their economic
lot. In other words, they were fol-
lowing the same yearning for security
which is driving US today.
At the end Of the wagon ruts there
was something worth the physical
risks. The standard Of life In log
cabin amid fields still blackened with
half f-burned stumps was not high, but
It was certain. A family, or at most .
township. could be whole self-sufnc-
ing economic system-plenty Of food
to eat II q man would but reach out
and shoot or cultivate 1t; plenty Of
warm clothes II the women Of the
family were willing. to spin; always .
tight roof over the family's head II
the little community would respond
to the call for q roof-ratsing.
Whatever he used was mans own;
be had the solid Joy Of possession Of
owning his home and his means Of
livelihood. And II things did not pan
out there was always IN INFINITE self
sudnciency beckoning westward-to
new land, new game, new opportunity.
Under such conditions there was 20
much to get dons which men could
not get done alone that the frontiers
man natural ! reached out to govern
ment - their greatest single instru-
msnt of cooperative self-help with
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