The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-12


speakers made their addresses. Owing to the
Illness Of President Little, Governor Butler pre-
sided. His address Of welcome was cordial and
BETTING to the occasion. He was followed by
Secretary Chandler Of the United States navy;
Governor Jarvis Of North Carolina, represent
ing the South Governor Symes Of Denver,
Colorado, for the West; Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe, on behalf of the Women's Department,
which forms, perhaps, the most attractive
feature OF the exhibition; General Francis A.
Walker as orator of the day and Mayor Palmer
for the city Of Boston. They all spoke with
feeling and significance. / wish that all OF my
readers could at least read these speeches in
detail. The leading sentiments rs made prom
inent by those speaking, each for his own sec
ton of our country, was like the clasping of
fraternal hands in the development OF our re-
sources and our Nation. Governor Jarvis re-
ferred with great earnestness to the desire of
the better classes Of the South to forget the
past, and to press on in the grand work Of
building up her fallen prosperity. Asking the
help Of the North financially and personally,
by taking up residence there Never in the
history OF North Carolina has she been so pros
porous as now. within the last five years
over twenty new cotton factories have been
erected in the state and the old ones enlarged,
till this year we consume in our state manu-
factories twice the amount OF cotton we did
five years ago" From his address.) Colorado,
as we all know, has been a state of surprising
| growth and enterprise This fact was empha-
sized by Judge Symes In the course of his ad-
dress. /" In 1861 It was organized as a terri
tory, then barren plain with nothing but bar
rem rocks to be seen among the mountains and
canons, but now, three hundred thousand peo-
pie are to be found there" 1t was admitted
rs state in 1876 The city of Denver has
seventy five thousand inhabitants with public
buildings which compare favorably with any
here or abroad. The wealth Of her mineral
deposits Is incaculable. The Robert T.. Lee
silver mine of Leadville, alone produces ten
thousand tons OF ore per anRum, valued at
from five hundred to fifteen hundred dollars
per ton AS people, we have just reason for
being proud of the position we hold among the
nations of the earth. According to General
| Walker, 60 Of the six leading manufacturing
countries in the world, England France, Ger
many, Italy and Austria, and the United States,
ours occupies the second place; and we are the
only one whose Industries are not rooted In the
remote past" And yet, at the present time, Just
one hundred years after our first impulse an
independent nation, our products require the
services OF " three million operatives" with an
annual payroll exceeding one billion dollars
Besides these, the mechanical agencies also in
use, in water-wheels and steam engines repre-
sent " three and half million horsepower,
while the aggregate value of our industrial
products reaches the enormous sum of six bill
lion dollars" II the question is raised, How is
this wonderful growth and prosperity to be ex-
planned? the answer may be found in the dec
laraton Of an Englshman that, invention is
normal function of the American brain -
But another Of our former industries, which Is
now practically extinct, was dwelt upon with
great and encouraging emphasis by Secretary
Chandler and several others. 1t il deplora-
BILE fact, that our vast shipments of food
products, and other results of our labor here,
are made in foreign built steamers; the ex-
change productions of the eastern hemisphere
returning in those same vessels. But, if the
sentiments of the speakers upon this subject
are at all indicative OF those held by the leading
men and capitalists of our country this lamen-
table state OF our shipping interests will ere
long be changed am not certain, but what
1t Is OF sufficient national Importance to war
rant national legislation and appropriation
have dwelt somewhat upon these leading feat.
ures of the addresses made at this opening, for
| regard them of vital Importance to every
thinking man who is at all interested in oul
national prosperity. In our country every
political contest may have its effect for, OF
against, that prosperity. II we can continue tc
preserve in our legislative bodies that rectitude
of conduct, which alone can contribute to pros
perity in its higher sense, and which has mate
rally aided in ours, we shall then, and Their
only, move on to the grandest achievements the
world has ever witnessed.
J FOREIGN EXHIBITION.
1t is a significant fact that to-day mark
Just century since the American UnioI
was formally recognized by Great Britain a,
free, sovereign and independent states" Ii
reviewing this period in his new History o
the People of the United States, Mr.. McMaster
relates chow, under the benign influence of lib
erty and peace, there sprang up, in the course
, of single century, prosperity unparalleled
in the annals OF human affairs; how, from a
state of great poverty and feebleness, oul
country grew rapidly to one Of opulence and
power; how her agriculture and her manufac-
, lures flourished together; how, by wise sys-
, tenn of free education and free press, knowl
edge was disseminated and the arts and sciences
. advanced how the ingenuity of her people be
came fruitful of wonders far more astonishing
, than any of which the achemists had eve
dreamed" 1t is fitting, then, that this centen
nial anniversary should be observed by tn,
opening of an exhibition here in Boston, repre-
: sentative of the American people, of the prod
, ucts, arts and manufactures of foreign nations
/, We have won place for ourselves among the
{ nations of the earth that commands their re
! spect, their admiration and their friendship
! Our commercial relations reach around tn,
globe, and in this connection it is of great fit
! ness that foreign exhibition should be hello
a here. But it is especially appropriate. at thi
, time, that there should be this display of thu
. achievements in the peaceful arts on this ont
hundredth anniversary OF our peace treaty
, with the motherland. The origin of holding al
, exhibition here of the industries of foreign
, countries exclusively is due to Mr. f. Z. Slim
son of Toronto, who acted as commissioner TO
Canada TO the exposition in Australia. Hi
4 visit to our city occurred in April, 1882 TIT
: proposition met with the hearty approval o
. our leading men and merchants. A committee
, was formed, correspondence opened with for
I eign countries agents sent to Europe, tn,
: the press there enlisted in its behalf, until fl
. nally the plans were so far perfected that
stock company was Incorporated under Massa
: chusetts laws. 1t was named the Foreign Exhi
! bition Association. n. j. Bradlee was electe
a president; c. B. Norton, secretary; F. w. Lin
: coin, treasurer. A capital Of twenty-five
4 thousand dollars was subscribed. They lease
: the building of the Massachusetts Chartabl
|, Mechanic Association, which, by an act o
= congress, was made United States bonde
a warehouse, having custom-house officials i
: continual attendance, so that all exhibits com
q direct to the building free of duties and wi
q return in the same way. Only such goods a
= may be sold and delivered at the close of tn
n exhibition are to pay regular tariff. The struc
!. ure was erected by the Mechanic Association
: in 1881, as permanent exhibition building
h 1t is situated on the corner Of Huntington
: avenue and West Newton street. aud cover
= more than ninety-six thousand square fee
a of space. The cost of the land and building wa
). three hundred and twenty thousand dollars
, The approach to the exhibition is all that coul
be desired. Besides our famous Common an
public garden, which line a part of the way
and are always open to the public, the visitC
may view the palatial private residences turtle
along the stately buidinps of the Natural Hi