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The American Instt,uf.

Last eve, ing the members and friends o. the Amefs
can Institute assembled at Metropolitan Hail. to hear Tn
annual address, delivered by the Hon. James Dxon Tn
attendance was very full and q number Of ge-tiemsu
distinguished path ons Of the Institution, Deseh
on the platform neA the orator. General Ta,lIredg'
the President with son preliminary remarks ntrod-co
the speaker to the assem- bly,.
Mr. DrxoN coming for ward congratulated the chrF
the prosperous condition In which they this d.V
found the institution fouadsd quarter OF century
by himself and fellow aborers in the cause Of Americas
industry From small beginnings 1t had grown, under
their auspices, truly national in its influence and Its
magnitude and they had the pleasure Of behold
ing throughout the country exhibitions OF simsr char
aeter of which theirs the parent and the forsannsr
lie begged also TO congratulate them that on ehS the
WAS again occupied and honored by the distinguishes
President Of the American In titute The then
proceeded to say-The prcmn' mt dsa which imprcsses
the mind OF the spectator OF your annual twenty fifth
exhibition IL the wonderful advance of country In
the industrial arts The skill the enterprise the nvsn-
ton OF great nation competent to create within itself
ali that necesity demand, luxury desire, have
arrested the gratfed attention of thousands. The
tripmphs OF art the wonders of science prove that
while territorial boundaries have been extended by
conquest the heart of the nation IS at the same time
alive with prosperous and healthy growth On the
2ist of October 1875 seventy years ago this
day, during the second session Of the fourteenth
Parliament OF Great Britain a debate arose in thS
Houee OF Lords the proposed in
the Kings speech relating to the American colonies In
the debate which followed scarcely single doubt Vas
suggested that the rebeous colonies would be speedily
reduced to unconditional submission but apology
was made for the province of New York, to which
desire to call your attention "a a striking illustration Of
the vast and almost inconceiyable change which has
since taken place in the relative Importance of the stso
and city In which we now assembled Earl Cover
and said that the administration had been deceived,
and that consequently the measures taken were by
means proportoned to the nature aud extent of the
service In particular he said that the province Of Now
York had been overawed. and compelled by party OF
Insurgents from Connecticut into measures she would
otherwise have adopted Such the relative po
on Of New York and Connecticut seventy years In
the opinion well informed British statesmen The change
which has since taken place fills the mind With ssto
nil hment. What was then provincial town has now
become of the great central points of universal CON-
merce and rivals the old marts of European trade Her
ships explore every cline, and outsail those Of the mis-
tress of the in her waters under tho
of the monarch to whom have referred The PROVINCE
of New York, the Empire State of confeiaracy,
was then a wilderness, and the great city whish new
stretches in beauty and in srepgh it, giant propr-
ons every side could then be oyerawed by band Of
insurgents from Connecticut This great change fsr-
nshes abundant food for Thought 1t has not been con.
fined to this city and State but whole country feee 10
its remoest bound the impulse of advancing civlzation
and wealth The orator then went to illustrate the cause
at the commencement of second war with England,
manufactures found to be in an extremely low
condition. The war gave then protection, and they
aourshed of necessity. during its continuance At liz
close another influx of foreign goods deluged the country
and thousands we're irretrevaby ruined la the frst
six months after tho cessation Of hostilities wooen
goods Of the value OF 100000 were thrown into the
United States The whole amount of nporaons for the
fiscal year ending Both September 1915 although the war
continued during the first quarter OF that reache4
the of Sll3l lU0000 while the exports Of the
year but Sb2 000 coo This immense bal SnGe
agapst us occasoDed great commercial distress.
But it was not by legislation alone
that the founders OF our republic attempted to seure
and coplee our independence in manufactures aad the
mechanic arts. They went further and abstaned from
the of foreign fabrics. President Washington was
ipaugurated ina sort Of American broadcoth cheerv
made in Hartford in the fret wooen factory establishsd
in the United States Mr. jefferson nd Madison were
deeply in pressed with the importance OF
tanning onr own industry, that they wore, at one pc
rod OF their lives American cloths exclusively. The
JeIlersOu's
continued to that the tendency Of national ndepen
dence in manufactures and the mechanic arts. Is n
enable him. to a reasonable extent. TO make his
for which price is paid, depends upon the de-
mand and supply. Increase the demand for labsr
multiply and diversity empoyments -buiid ,ac-
tories construct mnchinery-manufaotu everything
which the circumstances in which you placeA will
permit-puI,ue every branch Of the mechanic arts
bring hrth the mineral wealth which lies dead and
less in your mountains diversity agricultural par
suits aud thus create demand for labor (Cheers)
ing home manufactures ond to contend that not in gold
and silver does the real wealth Of nations consist but In
the brains and hearts of men With these developed
their foil power, no people be poor; without them
none can bs rich (Cheers) The wealth OF
try consists not in its mines ogod it banks its debts due
from citizen to another yet entirely n
labor has already wrought its cities its palaces its church.
es and railroads and human dwellings fed with all that
ing npity can devise for the comfort of nannnt in
these. Sweep all these from existence and leave tha
energy, tho fortitude the power to conceive and the
sk'i TO execute ennoble and purify our race and you
leave the true wealth of the nation untouched Having
dwelt upon the egricult urnl commercial curing
and mercantile of the country the gen
tieman said that it not without that the
earG Of the whole nation exulted in every exhibition Of
the naval superiority of this metropolis where her
sos outsai those Of England It Is American
triumph; and when Of her merchant princes des-
patches feet TO penetrate the frost bound regions ol
the ftgld and through the wintry night which
fer months mornips breaks-while the neart Of
the hopeful English wife accompanies the stars in thsir
unccasing ygiis to search polar ice and eteruaA
SHOWS with superhuman endurance for the long lot
rhh Admiral aud his impr. oned ships IL i American
beneyolence that wafo8 the plnudrs OF the world.
Great sppaHse The fairs Of the American Institute
for twenty successive years have marked the animal
progress of national Industry While the eye has
been Pratld aud the mind instructed by the present
exhibition part Of It, aud that part the be iut
fu OF all 1.-The display OF flowers aud fruit has sadly
minded Of who In former years bore prominsnt
part in your Anniversary festivals The genius Of bs-nty
and taste mourns the unmely oss of her devoted and
favored sdnirer. Mr Dixon sluded TO tho ato MIR.
Downing, and concluded his Grafton with bea dtiful
compimtn MT TO the memory Of that departed geuias,
which viii be long preserved fresh and fragrant his
flowers In the hearts OF Thousands whose taste has
been gtatiGed and cultivated by his Instructions
(Cheera)
General TALLn&GE then came forward and announced
that the fair Of the American Institute would continue
open till the end Of the next week and he pledged him
self that the day not Ter distant when american
cars running through American cities would not
foreign iron (Checrs)
The bend which in attendance struck ap a lively
air and the meeting separated highly delighted with the
address they had heard