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JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION
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law, literature, the fund of their
common thought, made an Inherit
ance which all of us share, and
marked deep along the Jlnes which
we have developed. It was the men
of English Btock who did most in
casting the mold Into which our
national character run.
"Let me furthermore greet all of
you, the representatives of the people
of continental Europe. , From almost
every nation of Europe we have
drawn some part of our blood, some
part of our traits. This mixture of
blood has gone on from the begin
ning, and with it has gone on a kind
of development unexampled among
people ot the stocks from which we
spring; and hence today we differ
sharply from, and yet In some ways
are fundamentally akin to, all the
nations of Europe.
"Again, let me bid you welcome,
representatives of our sister repub
lics of tnls continent. In the larger
aspect, your interests and ours are
Identical. Your problems and ours
are in large part the same; and as
we strive to settle them, I pledge you
herewith on the part of this nation
the heartiest friendship and good
will.
"Finally, let mo say a special
word of greeting to those representa
tives of the Asiatic nations who make
that newest eaBt which is yet the
most ancient cast the cast of time
immemorial. In particular, let me
express a word of hearty welcome to
the representative of the mighty
Island empire of Japan; that empire,
which, in learning from the west, has
shown that it had so much, very
much, to teach the west In return.
Welfare to All.
"To all of you here gathered I
express my thanks for your coming,
and I extend to you my heartiest
wishes for the welfare of your sev
eral nations. The world has moved
so far that it is no longer necessary
to believe that one nation can rise
only by thrusting another down. All
farslghted statesmen, all true patri
ots, now earnestly wish that the lead
ing nations of mankind, as in their
several ways they struggle constant
ly toward a higher civilization, a
higher humanity, may advance hand
in hand, united only in a generous
rivalry to see which can best do its
alloted work In the world. I believe
that there Is a rising tide In human
thought which tends for righteous
International peace; a tide which it
behooves us to guide through ratlon
al channels to snne conclusions; and
all of us here present can well afford
to take to heart St. Paul's counsel;
'If it be possible, as much as licth
In you, live peaceably with all men.'
First Settlement.
"Wo have met today to celebrate
the opening of the exposition which
Itself commemorates the first per
manent settlement of, men of our
stock in Virginia, the first beginning
of what has since become this mighty
republic. Three hundred years ago
a handful of English adventurers,
who had crossed the ocean In what
wo should now call cockle-boats, as
clumsy as they were frail, landed in
the great wooded wilderness, the
Indian-haunted waste, which then
stretched down to the water's edge
along the enthe Atlantic coast. They
were not the first men of European
race to settle in what Is now the
United States, for there were already
Spanish settlements in Florida and
on the headwaters of the Itlo Grande;
and the French, who at almost the
same time were struggling up the
St. Lawrence, were likewise destined
to form permanent settlements on
the Great Lakes and in the valley of
the mighty Mississippi before the
people of the English stock went
westward of the Alleghenles. More
over, both the Dutch and the Swedes
were shortly to. found colonies be
tween the two sets of English colon
ies, those that grew up around the
Potomac and those that grew up on
what is now the New England coast.
Nevertheless, this landing at James
town possesses for us of the United
States an altogether peculiar sig
nificance, and this without regard to
our several origins. The men who
landed at Jamestown and those who,
thirteen years later, landed at Ply
mouth, all of English stock, and their
fellow-settlers who during the next
few decades streamed in after thorn,
were those who took the lead in shap
ing the life history of this people in
the colonial and revolutionary days.
It was they who bent into definite
shape our nation while it was still
young enough most easily, most
readily, to take on the characteris
tics which were to become part of
its permanent life habit.
All Ueconie Americans.
"Yet let us remember that while
this early English colonial stock has
left deeper than all othera upon our
national life the mark of Its strong
twin Individualities, the mark of the
Cavalier and the Puritan neverthe
less, this stock, not only for Its env
ironment but also from the prcsenco
with it of other stocks, almost from
the beginning began to bo differen
tiated strongly from any European
people. As I have already said,
about the time the first English sett
lers landed here, the Frenchman and
the Spaniard, the Swede and the
Dutchman, also came hither as per
manent dwellers, who left their seed
behind them to help shape and par
tially to Inherit our national life.
The German, the Irishman, and the
Scotchman came later, but still in.
colonial times. Before the- out
break of the revolution the American
people, not only because of their
surroundings, physical and spiritual,
but because of the mixture of blood
that had already begun to take place,
represented a new and distinct ethnic
type. This typo has never been fixed
In blood. All through the colonial
days new waves of immigration from
time to time swept hither across the
ocean, now from one country, now
from another. The same thing has
gone on every since our birth as a
nation; and for the last sixty years
the tide of Immigration has been at
the full. The newcomers are soon
absorbed into our eager national life,
and are radically and profoundly
changed thereby, the rapidity of their
assimilation being marvelous. But
each group of newcomers, as It adds
its blood to the life, also changes It
somewhat, and this change and
growth and ddvelopment have gone
on steadily, generation, by genera
tion throughout three centuries.
Pionecis Are Heroes.
"Tho pioneers of our people who '
first landed on these shores on thnt I
eentful day three centuries ago, had
bef(jf them n task which during the
early yeais was a heartbi caking
danger and difficulty. Tho conquest
of a new continent Is Iron work, j
People who dwell in old civllatlons j
and find that therein so much of hu- j
manlty's work is hard, are apt to ,
complain against tho conditions as
being solely due to a man and to
speak as If life could be made easy
and simple if there were but a virgin
continent In which to worje. It is I
true that tho pioneer life was simpler, I
but It was certainly not easier. As
a matter of fact, the first work of
tho pioneers In taking possession of
a lonely wilderness is so rough, so
hard, so dangerous that all but tho
strongest spirits fall. The early iron
days of such a conquest search out
alike tho weak In body and the weak
In soul. In the warfare against tho
rugged sternness of primeval nature,
only those can conquer who are
themselves unconquerable. It is not
until the flist bitter years have
passed that the life becomes easy
enough to Invito a mass of new
comers.and so great aie the risk,
hardship, and toll of the early years
that there always exists a threat of
lapsing back from civilization.
Early Troubles.
"Tho history of the pioneers of i
Jamestown, of 'the founders of Vir
ginia, illustrates the truth of all this.
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