Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07

compete. Inc space allotted .
her has been utilized to the bes
advantage. In horticulture Nilsson
ri is facile princeps, in the forestr.
exhibit she has few if any equals
in agriculture and in mining she i
second to none; her archaeological
exhibit has attracted marked atten
ton; in manufactures and libera
arts our State compares creditabl,
with her older sisters; in live stool
competitor Missouri has ALREADY
taken her full share Of premiums
Such an exhibit as here made shoult
imbue every citizen of the Stat'
with renewed confidence in he
future. No candid observing mar
will contend that the State is no
amply repaid for the outlay she has
made. An exhibit OF the resource:
of this country with Missour
left out would have been incom
plete, and every Missourian
visiting this place of marvellous
displays, of selfinstruetion and of
self-cultivation would have hung
his head in shame if his State had
not been represented. But no ex-
hibit beyond the borders of the
State can do full justice to its adj
vantages and its capabilities. The
greatest exhibit Missouri can make
is the State itself. To the citizens
of our sister States and those of
other countries we extend a cordial
invitation to visit US at our homes.
Our sa1ubrious climate, pellucid
streams, rolling table lands, fertile
valleys, prolific forests, mountains
of iron and granite, inexhaustible
deposits of lead and zinc and coal,
rich beds of onyx and clay and
building stone, cannot be transported
nor surpassed. Our institutions
of learning are among the best in
the land, and our educational sys-
tenn is second to none. Our people
are hospitable and generous and
will greet you with hearty well
come. We are first in many pro-
ducts that 60 to make up the sur
plus wealth of this rich republic.
Our ore beds yielded in 1892 132,-
900 tons of zinc, not only the largest
of any State in the Union but a
large percentage of the total pro-
duct of the country. We grew in
1901 over 100000 bushels of
corn, and the yield per acre was
greater than that of any State in
the Union. We realize from it
over seventy-seven millions of dol
lars. We mined last year over
5000, 900 tons of coal and our out
put of lead was only second to that
of Colorado. In wheat, oats and
live stock we occupy position near
the head of the list, if not the first.
In the city of st. Louis alone be-
tween 1880 and 1890 the number Of
manufacturing establishments in
creased over 10 per cent, the capital
employed increased nearly 200 pei
cent and the value of the manufac-
tured product increased over 1OC
per cent. The abundance of our re.
sources is only cxcelled by their di'
versity. At the last Inter ational
Exposition held in this country,
that of 1885 at New Orleans, Mis-
souri, was admitted by competen,
judges to be more capable of living
within herself than was any state ir
the Union. Whether in satisfying
the necessities of life or ministerinl
to its luxuries we yield the palm tt
no member of the sisterhood nor tc
any section of equal area upon tht
habitable globe. 1t was Henry
Ward Beecher who said that Mis-
souri, is the crown of glory of th'
Union.
But | shall not longer detain th'
citizens of the state by enumeratinl
her advantages. They are or shoul'
be familiar with them, and this op
portunity to impart the same knowl
ledge to the inhabitants of othe
climes and other sections is on
which the people of the state hav
wisely embraced.
| Missouri is here, however, not on
lily as sovereign State, tenacious G
her indestructible rights, proud {
her record, conscious OF her re
sources and sanguine of her future
but also as a component part of a
"indissoluble union, willing to col
tribute her share toward the cred
and grandeur of the Republic. !
friendly rivalry between sister Stat'
we are jealous of our advantage
proud of our capabilities, but towal
Ievery other member Of the siste
ihood we entertain that feeling Whit
should characterize the daughters
a common mother. We recogni
the ties that bind us together in m
tual dependence as bonds of comm'