River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-08-26

the contentious, the needs and the
abuses. which now array classes against
classes, labor against capital, the city
against the country, and the states
against each other, shall be abolished
by Christianity and knowledge, recon-
ciled, and working together.
On scale less grand, but littl; less
beneficial, the Expeditions in our own
country, have done useful worn. Ii
Is, no doubt, true that the one at New
Orleans did more 10 etface sectional
antipathy, 10 soOthe the ranctr of
defeat, To quell the eXultation of CON
quest, To make the Union and the
Constitution dear, To bind in brother.
hood the North and South, than all the
statutes that have been enacted, and all
the Judicial decisions that have been
pronounced, for tho last twenty years.
When men saw the wheat of Minnesota
and Dakota, the cCrn of Iowa, Nebras-
ka, Kansas aud Illinois, the products of
Missouri, the cotton OF the lower States.
the sugar of Louisiana, the white and
yellow wealth of the mines of Montana
and Colorado, the agricultural and in
dustrial examples from union of
states of sixty millions of people, they
must have realized as never before,
the greatness If this republic, watered
as it is with rivers which flow not
against, but with, the course of trade,
and which afford the facilities of ex-
change of divers-producing soil; balted
rs it is, with iron highways; standing,
As II does, lord of continent, and LAY
ing either hand upon tributary sea.
Something, more than poetic sentiment
must have caused hearts TO throb be-
fore that sacred, but now silent bell.
which more than one hundred years
ago, rang out, from Independence Hall
the tidings of the birth of this nation,
and whose pealings inspired the souls
of Adams, Franklin, Washington, JEFF
ferson Madison, and of all men,
North and South.
1t must be matter of pride, for the
men who have built this spacious tenn
pie of utility, that they are the same
men who have called into being this
marvellous city, by processes which are
more wonderful than enchantment. |
know of no community, whose mem
bcrs possess, to an equal degree, that
faith which moves mountains; that
loyalty, which knows no abatement of
allegiance; that genius for planning,
which is always at work; that audacity
in execution, which daunts even the OPP
posing forces of nature; that liberality
of expenditure, which makes the pro-
fusion of rivals seem niggard.
And these men are here to-day, listen
ing to the praise they so well deserve.
Looking over his great multitude how
few old men are seen. Youth stands
here eXalting IN his cOnquests. Ponce
De Leon dreamed of land
Of perpetual youth in the valley of the
Mississippi lie died IN his quest, but
h3 simply misinterpreted his vision
1t was OF an age distant from his.
when men still in the prime OF life,
should live IN vast cities built by them
selves, cities which, like double stars.
are separate to their dwellers, vet
which, to the observer, seem but one.
Long may they live, these men and
women Of Minneapolis, to enjoy to the
full, the blessings of industry, refine
ment and luxury, which they have
created for themselves.
To name them is not necessary, aud,
besides, even Homer nodded in his
enumeration of the Argive kings.
The Governor then proceeded to con-
traSt the civilization Of to-day with
that in existence when the Roman Col
asseum ilOurished.
When the Grafton was ended Hon.
w. d, Washburn, president of the eX-
position read "a telegram from the pres
ident in response to the one sent him,
sending congratulations upon the
opening Of the exposition. Mrs. Cleye-
land was then notified that all was
ready, and from the Prospect House
in the Adirondacks, New York. She
started by electricity the machinery,
and the great exhibit was formally
opened.