The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-01
CASTELAR'S GREETING.


the People of the United States.
MADRID, April 3O.-Gen. CASTELAR,, Spanish
Premier, to-day wrote the following ad-
dress to the American people in recognition
of the opening of the worlds Columbian
e1sositicn at Chicago:
"Hail to the American people In the SOL
emn opening OF the exposition In the great
city. erected by free people TO creative
labor! The distance between prehistoric
man dwelling in caverDs and free men SIT
ting In Parliament AT Westminster or
Washington is no greater than between
conquest founded on the banks of
the Tigris and Euphrstes on Aei.
attic soil and those immense cities
which have called into existence exposi-
tions, whether London, Paris, Vienna.
recording the efforts of our Prometheuses
of progress to steep the earth In the splen-
dor of q progressive ideal more luminous
than when Rome. intent to found q united
Latin federation. established fetes
wherein. under the pretext of exchange of
products of the soil. the productions of the
mind were exchanged daily. causing to
irradiate from the pores what most divine
exists under the veins. namely, the im-
mortal spirit of redeemed humanity.
Hail. American people. celebrating the
sublime festival OF creative labor, breath.
ing therefrom common sDlrlt whose light
ana neat animated bDe Latln people, 0eS-
tined in the course OF ages to give unity to
the ancient world. to formulate the common
principles OF modern civil rights Much,
therefore. hopes the optlmist Philosophy
deceives me, or the exposition you Ameri-
cans now open promises to announce fed
Grafton among the people of the globe,
thanks to which We NAV see entire human.
ity forming one body wherein appears ami
mating spirit. loaded with ideas surpass-
ing the beauty of celestial space loaded
with stars.
Nowhere can the true results of progress
be learned like the land where industry
and labor hold to-day their su bllme COM
parison. The stone polished by another,
the only cutting instruments of remote an
tiquity; a hollow cavern. where the fossil
bear appears coeval with our lncipient race;
the vestures of leaves, ornaments, feath-
ers. necklaces. pebbles, wherewlth our
forefathers bedecked themselves on their
expulsion from paradise. and the
with maobines-me power uni.
versally replacing animated force.
manual labor; with the locomotive
abbreviating time, shortening space in de-
fiance of winds and waves; with cables
across w hote fibers words run with rapid.
~ akin to the emanations of light; with
telephones giving our voices greater reach
than thunders; with conductors bring
ing into our hands lurid lightning
flashes. converted into torches TO illumin-
ate and guide us. and TO tell men that
every vapor. every smoke, every fluid
flash. every chimney snort, every creak
and chants q most harmonious hymn to
universal redemption. l believe that as
statues, columns. art and learning were the
recompenses of the Greek republic; as the
first laws. then the spiritual supremacy Of
the Eternal City were the reward of the
immense services rendered nations by the
goddess Rome uniting ancient peoples; one
sole body, one supreme synthesis of ideas,
as the telescope of Copernicus dis
covering the rctundity OF the globe by
the weight of its shadow on a satellite; as
the magnate OF Amalfi seeking the fixed
point or the infinite starry beach and the
machine of Gutenberg reproducing and
multiplying it's ideas like the warmth of
spring and formulating autumn with
fruits and flowers. as these were the re-
wards of the cities and corporations Of the
middle ages. as America was the reward Of
the faith and constancy of Spain.
graphs. telephones. with like miracles.
are the recompense of the relig-
ious inspiration of the pilgrims bearing 9
mans rights. and the gospel of liberty TO
the new temple Of redeemed conscience. re-
wardiDg the learning OF Franklin, reward
ing the virtue and the policy of Washing
sop, re wardIng the exertions of numerous
heroes and martyrs In order TO found so
ciety with q Christianity applicable. not
only to the moral relations among man
kind. but also to the establishment and
conservation Of the institutions of q free
democratic republic, resemb bling the other
wherein they imbibe as their right the in
extinguishable stars OF the flag OF the
United States. forming an acclamation
universally chapted by all self-governed
men on the face of the earth.
"But what already Is attained Is not
enough. More is still required. As the
first idea Of spirit becomes crystallized IN
the reality of space 10 is succeeded by an
othesssnliahtening the wsy Of the human