The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-11-17


between it and the farms, for all are
bound to you by business and social ties
that hope will multiply and grow strong
| as time goes on.
Coming as you do, from all parts Of the
United States, you are welcome here and
hope you will BE- pleased that you came,
and when your labors are completed You
will carry away only pleasant memories
and desire to come again to Sedalia.
also hope you will consider yourselves the
guests Of all our people. holding . pass to
any,place or anything that may add to your
erj ,ymeut.
Again, geutlemeu, 10 b half of the city
of Sedalis, extend to you = hearty and
fraternal welcome and the freedom and
liberty of the city.
The response to this address was
elcquently delivered by Mr..
DANIEL NEEDHAM,
of Boston, Massachusetts,, who was
roundly applauded.
The welcome by the Commercial
club of Sedaiii, Was delivered by
PEsIDENT FRANK B. MEYER,
and YVES excellent in every Particular.
1t was as follows:
Mr. President, Gentleman of the Congress
As president of the Sedslia Commercial
club and speaking for its m,ny m .mbers,
it affords me great pleasure, assure you,
to add few sine. Ne, warm and hearty
words Of welcome TO those uttered by my
worthy and illustrious predecessors.
Situated as we are 10 the midst Of one
of the mott fertile and largest producing
agricultural regions in this entire country,
and coming as we do in daily Contact with
the gentlemen who m anage so successfully
and pro6tably the broad acres with which
we are surrounded, and having many social
and business relations in common with
them, it is but natural that
we should long since have
learned to regard their welfare a,
as our welfare and to take the same inter-
es,s in their wesl and woe that they them
selvesdo--sympalhizing with them in their
sorrows, rel ,icing with them 10 their pros
perity and entertaining at all times that
rue spirit of friendship that death alone
ian sever.
If, after the labor is completed. to ac-
,omp sh which many of you have travel
ID Sd far, you will have time to visit, with
L., few of the many large stock farms il |
'ettis and adjoining counties you will
that our farmer friends in this |
'icinity do not confine themselves TO deri-
ring a profit from the soil alone.
We have wi hin radius of City |
niles If Sedalia herds upon
'erds OF blue ribbon cattle, hogs that hav.
aptured FIRST premiums at many inter-
tate fairs, horses that have a national
equation and mules large enough and
trong enough to ysnK the biggest mono
'oly in the United States into the middle
+ the next century, if not cut Of its exist
nce. altogether.
To return to our farmer friends and &C
uaintsnces We are not only proud of
hem, but We are al-o very grateful to
hem for the very materi i assistance that
hey have rendered in helping US built up
ere, in q short space OF time, a city that
so veil and favorsbly known in every
tate in this un;on; for heipirg US build
p city with An u Limited W ,ter supply
city illuminael By two Of the largest
lec,ric light plants west Of
.e Mississippi; q city of magnificent
-urches, m ANN 9TH schools and CO leges
nj elegant homes. A city tina: is rapidly
q large IN nufscturing center,
nd best Of all city inhabited by a wide
wake, active, wholesoul.d people, who
Of only recogniz. the vas. importance If
our meeting bat also appreci ste the very
Ugh compliment y)u have pail 10 'hem
, selecting this place Tor your eleventh
nuual ses>ior.
In behalf OF this people and especially
, behalf of the business element. allow me
welcome you again and again TO our
ty and to our homes"
SECRETARY CLAYTON SAID: l.
Mr.. PRESIDENT: / read in the history
my country, that eighty-seven years ago
lie president submitted to the congress of
Ie United States certain papers that would
indicate him against the attack OF his po-
teal enemies, and these papers gave the
rst information We lad OF this great north
estern country drained by the Missouri
yer.
They told of tribes OF Indians of gigan-
C statue; tall blutis faced with stone and
rived by the hand of nature into what
emed to be tall antique towers; vast
-airies covered with buffalo, and soil so
CHI that it would spontaneously yield the
OF life; large valleys in which
,thing but grass would grow, for it was
o rich to produce timber. Midway be- {
1een the source and the mouth OF the
issouri river there was described noun
in OF salt one hundred and eighty miles
ng and forty-five miles wide, from the base
which flowed clear streams of saline wa
r. The mountain was said TO be three
inbred feet high and on its crest no green i
rub or treee would grow, and it was seen
long distance cleaning in the sunlight,
| absolute mountain OF salt. The papers
ere discussed by the Boston Gazette and
g press OF that day, and it was claimed
at as an evidence of such mountain of
1t, that portions of it was on exhibition
St. Louis, Boston, New York and Phila-
,lphia. Highly embellished as this des-
Upton seems to have been, it was nearer
rrect than was the description OF Gen. !,