The morning call., 1893-08-25

nave heard Of it. you have read OF It; but
little of it IN this far-ontlying section of
our country have you seen. To-day in
Chicago, in the grand White City, builded
by American enterprise and capital, is
gathered together the garnered wealth of
the worlds thought. its progress. its civ
iliZation, its learning are there massed in
one grand army, that the world may see
and know and learn that mankind is con-
tinuaIly progressing. and that il has &C
complshed much that God sent man on
earth to do.
We cannot all Of us go TO Chicago-the
walking is not good. Laughter. II was
said once that the mountain wOnld not
go 10 MOhammed, and so Mohamhed went
to the mountain. We have reversed the
myth. This magnificent assemblage. this
grand pulsating heart Of the people, throb-
bng and beating to-day in unison with
the sentiment of the Midwinter Fair. has
called the White City across the continent,
and though Mohammed cannot go 10 the
mountain the mountain is coming to Mo-
BANNED.
What the advantages will be, what les
sons are to be learned here, what astonish-
ing charges occur, YOU will come 10 see
within the next four months. the same
grand audience of men, women and chill
dren will again march from the city to look
upon this space. then filled with the stIuc-
lures to be nut here to hold the gathered
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of civilization. 1t is not many years since
the sands of the sea were drifting to the
panhandle of the mark. Wise direction of
labor and scientific gardening has made
The desert blossom like the rose. You
have here q garden prouder and more
beautiful than Caesar built for the Roman
people across the Tiber; and here shall
come to rest upon the sands OF the Pacific,
by new energies, the glories Of the scence
and the Wit of the times. Applause.
What is it worth? What is 1t worth to us
to summon such an assemblage to these
grounds? What is it worth to California
that for the first time in the history
of the American people the Congress
of the United States. In Senate and
House of Representatives, without single
dissenting voice, had, In twenty-four
hours, determined that California shall
have knowledge of all that the world con-
! tains worth knowing. Never in the his
/ tory of this Government was such a scene
! witnessed as has been exhibited in Con-
| gress during this week. The directors and
| the croakers for once were paralyZed.
| Laughter. The people of this State that
! for so many years have borne about the
! same relation to the General Government
that India did to Rome in the hour of its
| triumph, have paused to listen. and across
/ desert wastes, over mountain SUBMITS.
along abyssmal depths, through State
after State, the voice OF California has
! been heard in the seat of government, and
its echo is ringing and will ring, through
this enterprise. throughout the civilized
world. Applause Have we not then,
! tellow-cltZens. great occasion to be CRATE
| ful that such a blessing, that such a
chance, that such gamble of life is open
to us?
l confess that am amazed when think
OF 1t. The sentiment of wonder grows and
strengthens within me until, as l look
this VA hlooa hte
| impulse. animated by one thought, burning
with one hope. / feel that to-day's spec.
tacle is the most splendid that California
! from the day 1t marched into the Union
has ever witnessed. TApplause.1 They
say we take chances in this enterprise
and so we do. Nothing ever succeeded 10
this world except 1t was begun by men
whos took chances. The pessimist, who
believes that everything is wrong, the
! coward, who does not look upon an adver-
sary, would never dare to touch subjects
such as these men have undertaken to
! handle; but they have linked themselves
not with their fears, but with their hores
They have started forward: they will
know no backward step, and during the
next year there will be gathered and added
to the population of San Francisco a
population better than 10000 souls,
brought here to live among us and to
spend their money here, thank God.
! Laughter and applausel
In other parts of the United States there
is dount, disaster, fear. Business opera
tons of the most necessary characteristic
manufacture of what is essential to the
maintenance OF human tlife. is paralyzed
But the most bewildefing thought of all to
the people on the other side of the noun
tains is that this handful Of men in Cali
fornia have the courage and the will. the
self-reliance and the reliance upon their
brethren to undertake in such an hour
such an exposition. [Applause.]
The director-general has said. twill IL
pay?" answer for you. All those who
| think the exposition will pay will say
fave
| When the general put the vote mighty
shout went up from sc, 600 throats-a uni
versal AYE" without one dissenting voice.
The general continued: The director
general has been answered. 1t is not my