The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-10-30
CUR ASSOCIATED PRESS LETTER.

Phiiadeiphia, October 80, 1874.
THE CENTENNIAL.
The ladies OF our city are doing
valuable and effective service in the
matter of raising funds in aid of the
/ Centennial Exhibition. They pro-
pose giving series of six lectures
during November, and have engaged
James T. Fields, Esq, the eminent
author of Boston, as the lecturer. =
On The 22d and 23d of February
next, they propose holding an Inter-
national festival, and a committee is
now making selection of the national
costumes to be worn.
THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE.
The exhibition OF skilled workman
ship by the Franklin Institute was
formally opened by Gov. John y.
Hartranft. After the conclusion of
the Governors opening address, the
Vice President, Mr. Moore, arose and
said Fellow citizens;-Allow me to
present to you Mr.. Hector Orr, one
of the Oldest printers of the United
States, who is true representative
OF American labor OF the day.
Mr.. Orr who had just been work
ing at an old Ephrata hand press, on
exhibitiony inking.the forms by hand
with the old fashioned ink "balls, +"
laid down his work and said:
Mr.. President, my friends and
countrymen-I take this opportunity
to say that 1 have literally stopped
the press" to announce that the
Franklin Institute has resumed the
exhibition of American manufactures.
This is not exactly the latest news
but it is good. '[Applause,
1t is not an old practice; we tried
it fifty years ago. We have tried
both, "its breach and its observance, ;"
and [ think we shall to-d day announce
the great "Third party"-our own
million of inhabitants-that we have
decided that it shall never be inter-
mitted again. IApplause.
| have said we have stopped the
the press. That little affair yonder,
which looks like miniature gallows,
is not very imposing, yet when 1 en-
tered the business two-thirds of the
printing of Christendom was done
upon such a machine; and to-day,
not far off, there is a Philadelphia
invention that commends itself alike
to mechanics and statesmen--tAe
Bullock Press.
You will understand the difference
when l say that my friend Charles S.
Close and L could upon that old press
obtain only $50 impressions in an
hour, while yonder is a machine that
will do $4,000 impressions in an
hour, four times the size. Applause,
AS one unit to 400, so is the prog
ress of my great trade in the last 80
years,
This is the mechanical progress Of
our press. We have had various i'm
prov ements in that time. But it was
upon such a common machine as that
that Junius and Wilkes shook the
throne of George Ill, and upon this
side of the Atlantic toppled it over.
Throughout our country lately there
have been many instances such as
this, various gatherings, festivities
and thahksgivings.
I would like to draw your atten-
ton to the contrast between our ex-
hibition and those. Upon this broad
area, beneath this spreading roof,
there is not cannon, nor a sword,
bombshell, nor q percussion cap
Here is no horse racing, no game
chickens, no bull terriers. All that
is here is human activity, the results
that direct to good end. This is
true progress. 1t is all to furnish
comforts and necessities for our
American homes. This is at once a
cause and the effect of sturdy indie
pendence.
1 have given the remarks Of Mr..
Orr in full because nothing could
more forcibly portray the rapid ad-
vance in American skill. By it every
man in the community can obtain a
newspaper at a lower price accord
ihgly than any other thing produced
in this country, and the few-if there
are any-who will not take news
paper under these circumstances
ought to be labelled "Modoc Indi-
an" and banished to the land Of the
Modocs. The slow and winding gait
Of the OK as compared with the light
ming speed of the easy-mounted rail
road engine, whirling along 80 mile
an hour, presents q no more striking
contrast chan the old Ephrata, doing
its level best to get off 2,5OO copies
in Is hours, with the Bullock rolling
off 25, 900 iDlressj' 'as an hour.
The display Of machine tools in
this exhibition is immense. Those
competent to judge say-there has
never been so many or such fine .ex-
amples of the machines for making
machinery brought together at one
time, in this county. Heading the
line in the main avenue is group
deposited by the house Of William
Sellers tE Co., who have the reputa-
ton of being the leading machine
tool makers in the world. 1t was
this house, that as Americans, we are
indebted TO for redeeming our credit
in the exhibition of machinery at
vienna-when the judges awarded
them the highest honor in their pow
er to confer-"the Grand Diploma
of honor" this, in competition with
the world, they alone Of all machine
builders receiving this honor. In
l1,-.;, t,,, % sla 1acl Grand Evuoei