The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-23
CLEVELAND SPEAKS.
Presidents Day at the Atlanta
Exposition.
The President breaches a Ser
mon on Selfishness.
PATRIOTISM DEFINED.
PATRIOTISM DEFINED.
1t is Where All Strive for the
General Welfare.
Not Where Private Advantage
Destroys Public Good.

ATLANTA, Oct. 23-No brighter or
balmier sun ever snone over this particu
lar portion of the southland than that
which dawned on this morning, presi-
dents day at the Cotton States and Inter
national exposition. The thousands of
visitors landed in the city yesterday ear
ly swelled throngs on the streets to i'm
mense proportions and locomotion soon
| became difficult matter. In accordance
with the carefully laid plans of the ex-
position management the exercises ofthe
day were all concentrated within the eX-
position grounds
The presidential party spent the morn
ing quietly at the Adagon where they
renamed until il o'clock when they
were driven rapidly to the exposition
grounds without any parade whatever
Inside the gates the military was al
ready gathered, including the Fifth regi-
ment OF United States regulars com
nanded by Col. w. L. Kellogg the
troops paraded around the board walk
within the fair enclosure and were re-
viewed by the president from stand in
front of the government building.
After the review the president deliv-
cred an address. He was introduced by
President Collier, of the exposition com
pany, who referred to him as the man
who had been entrusted with the duty of
wiping out sectional issues and lines.
He also said of President Cleveland:
HE of all men in this country should
be best able TO recognize the voice of the
people, for uato him it has been shown
IN more emphatic terms than to any man
of our generation"
President Cleveland's appearance at
the front of the stand was the signal for
an outburst of applause from the multi
! tude. The president said:
"Mr. President-On my own behalf
and for my co-laborers in the executive
! branch of our government who have &C
companied me, thank you for your
kind words of greeting. We are here to
congratulate you and your associates
upon the splendid success of the exposl-
tion you have set on foot and upon the
evidences you have gathered, chiefly IL
| Illustrative Of southern enterprise, south
ern industry and southern recuperAtion.
"But we are here also to claim a share
in the pride Of your achievement n o por-
ton of our counirymeu, wherever found.
can exclusively appropriate the glory
arising from these surroundings. They
are proofs of American genius and in
dustry, which are the joint possession Of
all cur people, and they represent tri-
umphs OF American skill and ingenuity
/
est to the humblest have proprietary
right.
''While my fellow citizens of Georgia
and her neigh boring states may fellci-
tate themselves to the fullest extent upon
such evidences as are here found OF the
growth and prosperity of the. interests
and enterprises in which they are
especially concerned, l cannot be de-
Drlved Of the ENJOYMENT afforded by the
huf h.a1 work fbRv
emphasizes in the sight of the world the
immense resources and iadomitabIe
thrift of the people OF the United States.
alt seems to me the thought may be
suggested as not inappropriate to this
occasion. that what we see about us is an
outgrowth of another exposition inaug-
urated on American soil more than d
century ago. when a new nation was ex-
hibied to the civilized world, guaranteed
and protected by 4 constitution which
WAS ordained and established by the
ueople of the United States with the de-
clared purpose OF promoting their gen
eral welfare and securing the blessings
OF liberty TO, themselves and their pos
terity.
"ihe success which has attended this
exposition of products and manufactures
is not altogether due to the quality Of
the soil or character of the peopfo in
any of the contributing states but it
rests largely upon the fact that these
states are members of a beneficently
governed nation, whose natural recources
| and advantages everywhere have been
developed and improved by the influence
of free institutions. and whose people
have been stimulated and encouraged by
! the blessings of personal liberty.
l. "a contemplation of the benefits vO0ch-
safed to. US by our government easily re-
| minds US OF the importance OF d hearty
| and united co-operation in their support
and protection. We should lovingly
watch and guard it, not only because we
are recipients OF lis precious gifts but
for its own sake and because it has been
put in our hands III sacred keeping, to
prove 10 the world that man can be
trusted with self government.
I'VE shall walk in the bath of pa
triotic duty, if remembering that our
Tree lnstitations were established to pro
| moe the general welfare we strive for
those things which benefit all our people
and each Of Us is content TO receive from
d common fund his share Of the prosper
ity thus contributed. We shall miss our
duty and forfeit our heritage if, in mar
row selfshness, We are needless
of the general welfare aud struggle TO
wrest from the government private ad
vantages which can only be gained at
the expense of our fellow countrvmen.
Il hope | may therefore be permitted
in conclusion, 10 suggest Z most i'm
portant lesson taught by this occasion,
the absolute necessity 10 our national
health and welfare, and consequently 10
our individual happiness as Cit
liens, of Z careful discrimination
in our support of policies and in our ad-
vocacy of political doctrines between
those which prompt the promotion of the
public welfare and those which simply