The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-06-07
WORLDS FAIR.
rbauncey M. Depew Speaks Eloquent
Nv to the Chicago Press
Club.
WIT AND FLoQUEAcE COMBINED.
The Brilliant Orator Says That This is
the Right Time for the
Exhibition.
He Encourages Chicago to Make the
Fair Worthy Of This Great
Republic.
Receiving . Warm Greeting,

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Receiving = Warm Greeting.
CHICAGO, June 5.-Hon. Chauncey M.
Depew received ar enthusiastic welcome
this evening from the press club and
made an eloquent address,.
Mr.. Depew spoke In part as follows:
The all-pervading pres, with the COM
%pleteness of its information and thu ma
iesty of its power. represented in part by
the Chicago Asso~ .iation. IS unknown, as
we underFtand it, in all the countries Of
the globe. In the journals of Great
Britain the United States are dismissed
daily with q brief paragraph as to the
markets, or q long account Of a crime, OF
a flood or a fire, and in the continental
newspapers they are rarely mentioned at
all. 10 the European, the Asiatic, the
African, the Australian, education as to
the products and positions of foreign
countries is largely from the senses, the
eye, the touch and the ear. Our, efforts
to reach the world through this, the only
tably inadequate. Dur first exhibition in
new lOIhs III 1COO, Wuo AltbuIkCN Ny a
private corporation and not properly sup.
ported by the government, WIS opened
by the presided of the United States and
closed by sheriff of the county. (Llushter.)
Foreign exhibits were seized Tor It's obi
cations, and Horace Greeley, one of its
managers, was imprisoned in Paris for its
debts. Our second exhibition, the Cen
tennial one of 1876, nj Philadelphia, was
everything that a city and state aud the in
telligent endca,or of patriotic citizens
could create, but it lacked the cordial CO.
operation of the government to make 1t
all that it might have been. The grand
est and nust satisfactory display Of the
products and the civilization of the world
ever gathered was the exhibition in
Paris during the last hummer. Its splen-
dor and completeness filled the observer
with the proudest comprehension OF the
products, the development and the prog
ress of mankind.
AN AusPICIoUs TIME.
There has been no time since the inau-
g~uration of our first president SO auspic-
ious for a national and international ex-
hibition In the United States. In 1876
we had only partially recovered from the
most disastrous financial panic of the
century. The south had not yet started
upon Its new development, and was still
suffering from the disorders and bitter
ness of reconstruction. But now re are
at the very contamination of peace aud
prosperity. We are on the pinnacle OF a
century of unexampled growth, develop
ment and progress. The vast region west
of the Missouri river which was a wilder
ness in 1875 has been fruitful in new
states added to the union, the railroad
has penetrated along the valleys and
climbed mountain tops, carrying popula-
tons, opening farms, developing mines,
starting furnaces and mills. building vii
lagos and founding cities. A generation
has grown up in the south which has
caught the spirit OF progress, and the
pace of the times. The great ranges 30
rich In coal and iron are furnishing
wealth for new Birminghams and Man
chesters and Pittsburghs. [Applause.]
New York and Chicago were both
founded upon a broad commercial basis,
while conquest and spoliation marked
the possession of their lands by other
communities. The Dutch paid the In
dams twenty-four dollars for Manhattan
Island, and the founder of Chicago gave
to them five shilllngs for the site Of the
city and three hundred miles around 1t.
That the Dutch played pitch. penny with
poor Lo upon the Battery, and won back
the money, does not impair the CONNER
cial integrity OF the transaction. 1t was
only m object lesson to the savage upon
the evils of Gambling. [Laughter.] But
there Is no record that the purchaser of
Chicago made an effort TO secure a return
of his five shillings. The city on the sea-
board, starting from q commercial basis,
has become the metropolis ut the conti-
nent, and n Of three chief cities of the
world. This city upon the lakes Is now
the greatest wonder of our western de-
velopment, and with the impetus derived
from the success of this fair will be the
most phenomenal of modern communi-
ties.
Above and beyond the material results
of this exhibition, will be Its stimulating
influences upon the patriotism Of the peO-
pie and the unity Of the nation. Tits one
of the paradoxes Of progress that diffuse
and universal intelligence tends to provin-
cialism and local pride and tho refine
ment of the intellect to angles and points.
There was a time when the weekly Tri-
bune reached every town in the west, and
Horace Greeley's opinions were the bond
of common sentiment and national union,
but the
ASSOCIATED PRESS
distributes with impartial HAND the news
of the world to the newspapers in every
city in the land. The result Is that the
journals of every town 60 to the public
only as far as the train can carry them
during the morning hour or before the
family clock strikes the note for retiring.
Universal circulation all over the country
is no longer possible to any newspaper,
and the editorials of the local press mould
the opinions of their people. Under
these conditions the New York editor
does not write for Chicago nor tie Chi
cago editor for St. Louis. II the eastern
OF western, or tie southern or Pacific
coast press treats all the interests of 9th
er sections, 1t Is too often in an unfriend-
ly or critical spirit. 1t is in a tone
that deprecates or assalls their
distant countrymen, and makes
them not only rivals but enemies.
From this cause multitudes In the
East believe the West given up wholly
to the pursuit of money, and deficient In
the culture and refinement of long or
ganized and intelligent communities.
Multtudes in the west regard the people
Of the east as effete and weak-excres-
cences upon the body polite, OF leeches
In the form of gold bugs and coupon cut
ters. The press of the south inculcates q
sectional pride and s~ensitiveness which
suspects an enemy In the mildest critic
and hostility in every other section. Blu,
the fierce light OF
UNIVERSAL PUBLICITY
which will beat upon this exhibition, and
the commingling here of citizens from
every part of the Union will do much tc