Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-21
THE WORLDS FAIR.
A Great Parade And The Dedi-
catory Grafton.
Henry Watterson on Hand and apeaks
For One Hour-His Eloquent Wei
come to Mankind.
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CHICAGO, Oct. 2l.-The quadricen-
tennial anniversary day of Americas
discovery was ushered in with the
booming of cannons, with the rails.
ing of flags and with all the cere-
mony due the great day. 1t Is the
second of Chicago's public holidays
and the climax of its weeks festivi-
ties. Never in the history of the
Garden City has 80 great throng
been within its boundaries, and
never has ii sheltered so vast host
of prominent men, representing
every State In the Union, the nation
and every civilized country on the
face of the globe. The civic parade
of yesterday pales into insignificance
beside The great pageant which is
moving through the great thorough
fares of the Worlds Fair buildings.
The military procession formed
near the Auditorium on Michigan
avenue and proceeded in accordance
with the program heretofore an.
nounced. 1t was splendid parade,
too grand for description.
Hon. Henry Watterson, who was
chosen to deliver the dedicatory ora
tion OF the Worlds Fair, was on
hand promptly, and spoke for one
hour. He reviewed the progress Of
American civilization from the day
Columbus set foot on the soil OF the
new world down to the present, In a
mastery way. In his welcome to
mankind he said:
II cannot trust myself to proceed.
We have come here not so much to
recall bygone sorrows and glories as
to bask in the sunshine of present
prosperity and happiness, to inter.
change patriotic greetings and in
dulge good auguries, and above all,
to meet upon the threshold, the
stranger within our gate, not as a
foreigner, but as guest and friend,
for whom nothing that we have ls
toggood.
"From wheresoever he cometh we
welcome him with all our hearts ; the
son OF the Rhone and the Carronne,
our god-mother France, France, to
whom we owe so much, he shall be
our Lafayette: the son of the Rhine
and the Mozelle, he shall be our
Goethe and our Wagner: the son Of
the Campagna and the Vesuvian
Bay, he shall be our Michael Angelo
and our Garibaldi the son OF ARA
gon, and the Indes, he shall be our
Christopher Columtus, fitly honored
at last throughout the world.
soar good cousin OF England needs
no words Of special civility and
courtesy from US. For him the latch
string is ever on the outside, though
whether it be or not we are sure that
he will enter and make himself at
home. A cOiumOn language enables
us to do full justice to one another at
the festive board, or in the arena OF
debate, warning both of us in equal
tones against further parIey In the
fell OF arms.
"All nations and all creeds be well
come here; from the Bosphorus
and the Black Sea, the Vieneuese
woods and the Danubian plains; from
Holland dyke to Alpine crag; from
Belgrade and Calcutta round to China
seas and the busy marts OF Japan,
the isles of the Pacific and the far
away capes of Africo-Armenian
Christian and Jew, the American,
loving no country except his own,
but loving all mankind as his BROTH
er, bids you enter and fear not bids
you partake with US these fruits Of
four hundred years of American civ.
ilization and development, and be-
hold these trophies OF one hundred
years Of American Independence and
freedom"