The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-10-30

600 OF Americans inside these grounds
We have ia the United States G5,0OO,-
600, aye. nearly 7OOOO,O0), inhabitants,
aud the Congress should declare that
another year be given US that all Amer.
leans could lave IN opportunity TO
come here. The exposition directory
has not the meaus 10 continue IT, II 10
national enterprise, and tho nation
should breathe new lie into Is, and lot
Us have IN average Attendance OF 2OD,-
600 day. This Worlds Fair has been
the greater educator Of the ninetgenth
century. The greatest this century has
been. II has been the greatest educator
the world has eyer8ecm.
Comeoutand look upon backgrounds,
upon this beautiful white city, The
past has nothing Tor iIs model, the
future will be utterly incapable OF com
peting with it, aye, Tor hundreds OF years
to come. This great white city has
sprnng from the moras4. Only Two
years ago these 1000 acres, which are
now covered By these palaces, lay but
little above water and much beneath
IL. Look at II now. lhese buildings,
this hail. this dream OF poets OF cen.
turtles are the wild aspirations OF crazy
arChitoctsalone None but crazy arch
iteCt could have supposed that TINS
scene could be created. In two years
It has sprung up from the morass and
has arisen, al! that you see here. crys-
talli2ed in staff, looking ike marble. II
has been my good fortune to have seen
all the cities Of the world, or nearly all.
1t has been my good fortune to have
heon among theruins OF the great cities
Of the Old World. | have stood upon
the seven hills OF Rome; from Capltala
have looked over ana tried to repeo'
pie old Rome. | have been in Athens.
Around me were runs. had enough
imagination TO rghabiitate them. l
have stood among the ruins OF all the
old cities, but no Imagination could re.
call any OF these ruins and make them
compare with this white city.
WONDERFUL GROWTH.
A man said to me yesterday in walk
ing around these grounds: "Who could
have conceived this; what brain brought
it forth? What genius instigated the
idea OF these magnificent buildings and
their groupings ?" | said to him: There
is old adage, Fools enter where angels
dare not tread" Our people we're wild,
crazy; they conceived all that the mad.
ness OF genius could conceive. There
have been great men who have said ge-
MUS was insanity. Genius is but auda-
city, and the audacity OF the wild but
woolly west and OF Chicago has chosen
a star aud has looked upward to it, and
knows nothing that it will not attempt,
and thus far has found nothing that 1t
cannot accomplish.
1t was the audaCity oil genius that
imagined this thing. 1t was the pluck
OF the people, congregated from all the
cities OF this Union, from all the ma
tionalities OF the world, speaking all
languages. drawing their inspiration
IRON 5000 miles oil territory from east
80 west, from yonder green lake on the
north to the gulf on the south, our peo-
pie who have never yet found failure.
When the fire swept over our city and
laid it in ashes in tweuty.tour hours,
then the world said: "Chic0go and her
Boosting is now gona.. forever" But
Chicago said: "We'll rebuild the city
better than ever" and she had done it,
The Worlds Fair Is a mighty object
lesson. But my friends. come on! OF
this White City; come out OF this walls
into our black city. When we get there
will find that there is an object lesson
even greater than is the Worlds Far
itself. There is city that was n morass
when | came into the world, siXty.eight
and one-haii years ago. II was village
OF but few hundred when | attained
the age OF twelve years, in 1897. What
is it now? The second city in America,
and you people OF the east look we'll 10
your laurels. told Mayor Gilray the
other day, Look well TO your laurels,"
for tine man is now born and myself
have taken new lease Of life and oe-
lieve will see the day when Chicago will
be the biggest city in America aad the
third city on the face OF the globe.
The world will be wiser for it. No
king can ever rule the American heart.
We have the Monroe doctrine. Amer
lea extends an invitation to the best OF
the world and her stars and stripes
will wave from now on to eternity.
That is one OF the lessons we have
taught; il | gos on another moment |
will get on to some new ideas. thank
you all Tor coming to us. | welcome
you all here in the name OF Chicago.
welcome you to see this dying effort OF
ChiCago-Chicago that never could con-
ceive what it wonid not attempt, and
yet found nothing that it could not