Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-11-04

Director Burnnam was the next
speaker. followed by President Hig-
ginbotham, accepting the structures
from the builders.
1.-The Work of the Board Of Lady
Managers" was the subject OF an ad-
dress by Mrs. Potter Palmer
Speeches were made by Vice President
Morton. Chauncey Nj. Dewew, Henry
W atterson and others, the exercises
ending with prayer by Cardinal Clio
bon.
The dedicatory exercises at night
ended with the most brilliant and gor-
geous display OF fire works ever given
in this or any other country.
Chauncey VI. Depcw's Grand Tribute
10 the Discovery of America.
CHICAGO, Oct. 24.-FolOwing are
attracts from the address Of Chauncey
NJ. Depew at the worlds fair dedica.
tory exercises:
This DAY belongs not to America but
to the world. The results OF the event
it commentaries are the heritage OF
the peoples OF every race and CLINE.
We celebrate the emancipation OF man.
Inc preparation was the work OF al
most countless centuries. the realiza.
ton was the revelation OF one. Inc
cross on Calvary was the hope; the
cross raised on san Salvador was op-
portuuity. But for the first Column gu:
would never have sailed. but for the
second there would have been no place
for The planting, the nurture ana the
expansion OF civil ami religious iioer.
W. Ancient history is u dreary record
of unstable civilization. Each reached
its zenith OF material splendor and per-
ished.
Absolutism in the state, and bigote6
intolerance in the church. shackled
popular unrest and imprisoned thought
and enterprise in the fifteenth century.
The divine right OF kings stamped oui
the faintest glmmer OF revolt against
tyranny. and the problems OF science,
whether OF the skies or OF the earth.
whether OF astronomy or geography.
were solved or submerged by eclesias
tical DEGREES.
Fifty years before Columbus sailed
from Palos gluten berg and Faust mad
forged the hammer which was 10
break the bonds of superstition anu
open the prison doors of the mind.
Ihey had invented the printing press
and movable types. Its first service,
like all of its succeeding efforts was
for the people. The frstoorn OF the
marvellous creation OF these primitive
printers of Mayence was the printed
bible. The force, however, which
made possible America and Its reflex
influence upon Europe, was the open
bible by the family freside.
God always has in training some
commanding genius for the control OF
great crsises in the affairs OF nations
and peoples. Neither realism or ro-
nance furnishes more striking and
picturesque figure than that OF Chris
topher Column ous. Inc mystery ABOUT
his origin heightens the charm OF his
story.
To secure the means TO test the truth
OF his speculatlons this poor and I'M
known dreamer must win the support
of kings anu overcome the hostility of
the church. He never doubted his
ability TO 40 both. His unsnaKen faith
that Christopher Columbus was com
mlssioned from heaven to carry
Christ across the sea- to new CONT
nents and pagan peoples lifted him so
far above the discouragements OF an
empty purse and contemptnous court
that ne was proof against the rebuffs
OF fortune or friends.
The mighty soul OF the great al mi
raj was undaunted by the ingratltude
( OF the princes and the hostility OF the
/ people. by Imprisonment and neglect.
He died as he was securing the means
and preparing a campaign for the res
, cue OF the holy sepulcner at Jerusalem
> from the intidel. He did not know
what time has revealed. that while the
mission OF the crusaoes, OF Godfrey OF
I Rouillon and Richard Of the Lion
> Heart was u bloody and fruitless ro-
nance. the discovery OF America was
, the salvation of the world. The tomt
OF the Savior was a narrow and empty
, vanlt precious only for its memorie:
= of the supreme tragedy OF the centu
2 ries, but the new continent was to ot
the home and temple OF the living
: God.
: The rulers OF the old world began
t with partitioning OF the new. Blu
/ individual intelligence and independ
e ent conscience found here haven ant
O refuge. Thinkers who believed mel
: capable OF higher deslinies and large
o responsibilities. and pious people VIII
y preferred the Bible to that union o
church ana state where each serve
e the other for the temporal benefit O
v both, fled to these distant and hos pita
BILE lands from intolerance ana hope
y less oppression at home. The Purita
J. settled in New England and the cava
lier in the south. They represente
Y the opposites of spiritual ana tempori
al opinions. The processes OF libert
:. liberaiized the one ana elevated tn
10 other. Washington and Adams wer
j. the new types. Their union in a con
d mon cause gave the world IA repuoli
10 both stable ami free. 1t possesse
y conservatism without bgotry. and lii
erty without license. 1t founded il
n situations strong enough to resist rev
At lutior, and elastic enough Il
IN indefinite extension to meet the r.
lie quirements in government OF eyer-ei
Iy larging areas of population. and II
to needs OF progress and growth.
e lie Turns the Gas and Inhaies
r. Until lie Dies.
Or SAN Francisco, Cal, Oct. eel