The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-09-13

to the illness of President Little, Gov. Butler
/ presided. His address of welcome was cordia
and BETTING to the occasion. He was followed
| by Hon. w. E. Chandler. Secretary of the
Navy; GOV. Jarvis of North Carolina, repre-.
senting the South: Judge Lymes of Denver
| Colorado, for the West Mrs Julia Ward
Howe, on behalf of the Womens' Department
which forms perhaps, the most attractive feat.
ure OF the exhibition; Genl Francis A. Walk.
er as orator of the day and Mayor Palmer for
the City of Boston. They all spoke with feel.
ing and significance. l wish that all of my
readers could at least read these speeches in de.
tail. The leading sentiments as made promin-
ent by those speaking, each for his own section
OF our country. was like the clasping of frater-
nal hands in the development of our resources
and our nation. GOV. Jarvis referred 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. Never in the history of North
Carolina has she been so prosperous as now.
said the Goe-ernor within the last five wears
over twenty new cotton factories have been
erected Ill 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" Colorado. as we all know.
has been state of surprising growth and
| enterprise. This fact was emphasized by Judge
Symes who said in the course of his address :
I'm 1861 it was organized as q Territory. then a
barren plain with nothing but barren rocks to
be seen among the mountains and canonS but
now, three hundred thousand people are to be
found there" Colorado was admitted as a 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
incalculable. The Robert f. Lee silver mine
of Leadville. alone produces ten thousand tons
Of ore per annum, valued at from five hundred
to fifteen hundred dollars per ton. As a people,
we have just reason for being proud Of the
position we hold among the nations of the
earth. According to Gen. Walker .'of the
six leading manufacturing countries in the
world. England, France, Germany, Italy,
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 lust al the present time. Just one
hundred years after our first impulse as an in
dependent nation, our products require the
services of three million operators. with an
annual pay roll exceeding one billion dollars.
Besides these the mechanical agencies also in
use, in waterwhees and steam engines represent
three and half million horse powers. while the
aggregate value Of our industrial products
reaches the enormous sum of six billion dollars
If the question is raised. How is the wonderful
growth aud prosperity to be explained? the
answer may be found in the declaration of an
Englishman. that convention i. normal func-
ton of the American BRAIN"
Another of our former industries, which is
now practically extinct. was dwelt upon with
great and encouraging emphasis by Sec. Chand-
Ter and several others, 1t is deplorable fact,
that our vast shipments of food products, and
the other results of our labor here are made in
foreign built steamers: the exchange product
ions 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 lamentuble state
of our shipping interests will ere long be
changed
have dwelt somewhat upon these leading
features Of the addresses made at this opening
for regard them Of vital Importance to every
thinking man. who is at all interested in our
national prosperity. In our country every
political contest may have its effect for or
against that prosperity. If we can continue to
preserve in all our legislative bodies that recti-
tude OF conduct, which alone can contribute TO
prosperity in its highest sense, and which has
materially aided in ours. we shall then, and
then only, move on to the grandest achieve
mens the world has ever witnessed.
ASHMoNT.