San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-10-21

stately the majesty or the nation deScen-
ded this morning in dedicatoTy services,
tel the resolve to redeem all promises,
TO realize all hopes. Hither shall be
brought the product of labor and art, the
treasures of earth and sea. the inventions
or this woudrOusly inventive century, the
fruits OF learning and genius. The entire
globe is asJir in preparation to fill to re-
pletion the palaces we have erected.
The invitation has gone out to the world
in all the fullneSS and warmth of the
heart of this republic, and the nations of
the world have hearkened to IL as they
never did before TO voice calling men TO
an exposition. The best that America
can bring, the best the world owns, shall
soon be i'm Jackson Park.
What may he added? | will give reply,
What is there more important, more
precious, than matter, and all the forms
with which matter may be invested. Is
there not mind? What is there greater
than all the results of the thought, the
labor Of man? Is there not man himself.
the designer, the maker Of his works?
Bring hither, then, mind. Bring men -
not merely the millions, anxious to see
and to learn. These do we need; they do
not suffice. Bring the men whom the
millions desire to contemplate, and from
whom they may receive valued lessons.
Bring the thinkers, the workers, the
scholars, the apostles of action, who have
rendered possible, or have produced the
marvelS which will be housed in Jackson
Park, whose dreams make toward the
building up of humanity, whose arms
reach out TO the Improvement of men
along all the lines of human pro-
greSs, Let Us have the Columbuses
of our time. Let us have parliaments
of the leaders of men convOked from all
lands under the sun. in this manner in
your exposition complete in all its parts,
truly representative of the age and truly
great. You have matter and men; you
have the works and the workers. In men
far more than in matter you have the
highest products of progress. There in
progress only when men grow. In men
you have the potent means TO determine
the progress of the future. God has made
men the agents of progress.
| am stating the purpose OF the Worlds
Auxiliary Congress of the Worlds Co.
lumbar Exposition.
The organization, known as the ACxil
larry Congress is an integral part of the
Columbian Exposition, whose directors
authorize and support IL. 1t has received
from the United States government re-
cognition and approval. Its special mis-
sion is to organize and cause TO be held,
during the several months allotted to the
Exposition, international conventions OF
the scholars and workers OF the world
along all the lines of human progress in
the various departments of civilized life,
and in this way present, through the Nv
ing voice of the chief actors, clear and
comprehensive statements of the QueS-
tiOns in all the fields of activity, which
veX to-day the souls of men. The idea Is
truly grand, and most important results
must follow from the successful carrying
out of it. All countries are asked TO send
to Chicago their best and most active
minds. The several conventions, or con-
crosses, will bring into actual contact the
leaders in the several departments OF
thought. The thinking world will be
under our eyes; the whole trend Of
modern activity will he under our touch.
What schools for learners! What work
shops of new ideas. where mind in fric-
ton with mind provokeS unto higher
flights and rises into broader vistaS OF
truth!
The president OF the Auxiliary is Hon.
Charles c. Bonney. The name gives war
rant that all shall be done TO assure sue
cess. which high intellect, intense honesty
of purpose, and Strictest devotion to duty
can do. He is seconded in his work by a
body of able directors. Each broad de-
partment of thought Is, under their guild
ance, entrusted to a commission OF chosen
men, whose duty il becomes to prepare
the plan of work, to awaken public inter-
est, to solicit counsel from men OF note the
world over. In each department there
will be held as many congresses as there
may be traced out leading subdivisions Of
the general subject, and for each congress
there is appointed special commission,
who will give to les organization their i'm
mediate attention. | instance the depart
ment of education. There is the general
commission on educatiOn-and cO-Operat-
ing with 1t there are the special commits
SiOnS OH higher education, public inStruc-
ton, public instruction in music, the in
structiOn of the blind, the deaf aud dumb,
and the feeble minded. etc. Further
mOre-and | call particular attention to
this feature-the aid of woman is sought:
the importance of her work is recognized.
There is the wOman'S department OF the
congress auxiliary-a general commission,
and commissions corresponding to all the
proposed congresses, into which woman'S
work may appropriately enter.
The worlds congresses will be held in
the permanent memorial art palace erect
ed in Lake Front Park. Complete reports
of all deliberations will be published in
memorial volumes at the expense and I'M
der the direction of the United States
government. Already arrangements are
being made for the holding OF over one
hundred congresses under charge Of the
various departments into which the work
of the congress auxiliary has been or.
ganiZed. For some congresses, in view OF
the nature of the subjects to be discussed,
the attendance will probably not range
above the hundreds. In the greater num-
Der it will go far upward in the thou
sands, and in congresses of departments
of education, of temperance, religion, etc,
etc, we are assured that the attendance
will not be under fifty thousand. The
work already done, the promises given,
the preparations made, the adhesiOns
from people in America and in Transat-
lantic countries, allow no doubt Of the
triumphant outcome o.. the worlds con-
gresS auxiliary.
The congress auxiliary, the controlling
idea of which is to bring together men
working for men, puts forth in clear out
lines the high purpose of the whole Elk.
position, and invests it with meaning and