Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-10-22

place them side by side with the arts and
Industries of the elder world, to the end
that we may be stimulated and encouraged
TO new enterprises. COLUMBUS Is not ID
chains. nor are Columbian ideas IN letters.
/ sec him as in the great pictures unoer
the dome of the CAPITOL, with kneeling
figures about him, betokening no longer
the contrition of his followers.
RUT THE HOMAGE OF MANKIND,
with erect form and lofty mein animating
these children Of new world TO nlgher
facts and holder theories. we may not
now anticipate the character and value OF
our national exhibit. Rather may we
modestly anticipate that conservative
award will be made by the worlds crit
icism to young nation eagerly listening
to the reckoning future, within whose
limits the lightning was first pluck
ed from heaven at the will
of man, where the expansive
power of steam was first compelled TO
TRANSPORT mankind and merchandise over
the waterways of the world, where the
implements of agriculture and handlcratt
have been so perfected as to tighten the
burdens of toll, and where the subtle forces
of nature acting through the telegraph and
telephone are daily startling the world Dy
victories over matters which IN the days
of Columbus might have been reckoned
among the miracles.
We can safely predict, however, that
among those who will come from the near
and distant regions Of our country ana VINO
will themselves make part Of the national
exhibit. we shall see the descendants OF the
loyal cavaliers Of Virginia, Of the Pilgrim
fathers of New England, Of the sturdy
Hollanders who, in 1924, bought the y, OOO
acres of the island of Manhattan for the
sum of twenty-four dollars, OF the ad-
herents of the old Christian faith who
found resting place in Baltimore,
of the Ouakers and Palatine
Germans, who settled in Pennsylvania and
New Jersey, of the Huguenots who lied
from the revocation of the edict OF Nantes
to the banks of the Hudson in the North
and those OF the Cooper and Ashley rivers
in the South Of the refugees from Salse'
burg in Georgia and OF Charles EDWARDS
Highlanders in North Carolina. With
them also we shall have in person or in
their sons the thousands of others from
many climes, who with moderate fortunes
have Joined their future
TO THAT OF THE GREAT REPUBLIC,
or who with sinewy arms have opened our
waterways and builded our ironways.
We trust that from the lands beyond the
seas many will come to engage in fraternal
competition or to point US to more excellent
standards. If they shall find little IN our
product to excite their admiration we shall
welcome them to the atmosphere Of the
new world where some Of the best efforts
have been made in the cause OF freedom and
progress by Washington and Franklin and
La Fayette, by Agassiz and Lincoln and
Grant by Bolivar and Juarez and Fulton
and Morse and Edison.
Columbus lived in the age Of great
events. When he was child in l440 print
ing was first done with movable type;
seven years later the vatican library, the
great fountain of learning, was founded by
Nicholas the Fifth and 1855 is given as the
probable date Of the Mazarine Bible, the
earliest printed book known. 1t was not
until hundred years after the discovery,
that Gallileo pointing his little telescope to
the sky found the Satellites
Of Jupiter and was hailed
as the Columbus of the heavens. His char
acter was complex as was that OF many OF
the men of his time who made their mark
in history. Bnt his character and attain
ments are to be estimated by those Of his
contemporaries, and not by other stand
ards Deeply reading anatomitical science,
he was certainly the greatest geographer
of his age. / believe with CASTELAR, that he
was sincerely religious but his sincerity
did not prevent his indulging in dreams
He projected, as the eloquent Spanish ora
tor says, the purchase OF the Holy places
of Jerusalem, paved with saphires noun
tains of emeralds aad rivers of diamonds.
IN CONCLUSION
the Vice President said:
The transcendent feature in the charac-
ter of Columbus was his faith. That Sus-
and finally gave him the great u1SCovery.
Like him. let us have faith in our future.
To insure that future the fountains must
be kept pure, public integrity must be pre-
served. While we reverence what Carl
baldi and Victor Emmanuel fought for, the
union of people, we must secure above Gil
else what Steuben and Kosciusko aided
our fathers to establish-liberty regulated
by law. If the time should ever come
when men trihe with the public conscience,
let me predict the patriotic action or the
rep ublic in the language of Milton.
'Me thinks see in my mind noble and
puissant nation rousing herself like a
strong man after sleeping, and shaking her
inyincible locks; me THINKS see her as an
eagle reviewing her mighty youth ana
kindling her undazzled eye at the full mid
day beam, purging and unseallng her long
abused sight at the fountain itself of
heavenly radiance, while the whole noise
of timorous and fiocking birds, with those
also that love the twilight, futtering about
amazed at what she means"
Mr.. President, in the name OF the gov
eminent Of the United States, hereby
dedicate these buildings and appurtenances.
intended by the Congress Of the United
States for the use of the Worlds Column
bian Exposition, to the worlds progress in
art in science, in agriculture and in manu-
features. l dedicate them to humanity.
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