The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-10-24

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day at Atlanta and the crowd was in
mense, President Cleveland did not ap-
pear in the parade, but reviewed the
troops from one of the buildings on the
plaza, The parade took place on the
grounds, there being no march of the
troops through the streets,
In the line were the entire Fifth reg
iment of the regulars from Fort Me-
Pherson barracks, under command IF
Colonel W. L, Kellogg, the Gate City
Guard, commanded by Colonel Albert
Howell, the Fourth regiment Of Yir-
ginia, the First and Second company of
the Governors Foot Guard of Connee-
ticut, the Asheville Light Infantry of
North Carolina, the Tennessee Cadets,
the Atlanta Artillery, the Governors
Horse Guard OF Georgia, and severai
other companies. There Were fifteen
brass bands in the line.
The president spent the forenoon in
inspecting the government exhibits.
He was accompanied through the
buildings by Governor Charles 7, O'Fer-
rail- of Virginia, Ex-Governor Atkinson
Of Georgia and Governor Coffin of Con-
necticut. 1t is a red letter day for Al
lanta and 1t is estimated that $4,000
people are in attendance at the grounds
to-day.
This afternoon at the formal exercises
President Cleveland delivered a short
address. President Cleveland said:
Mr.. President-On my own behalf
and for my co-laborers in the execu-
tive branch of our government who
have accompanied me, l thank you for
your kind words of greeting. We are
here to congratulate you and your as
sociates upon the splendid success of
the exposition YOU have set upon foot
and upon evidences you have here
gathered, chiefly illustrative of south
ern enterprises, southern industry and
southern recuperation, but we are also
here to claim a share in the pride of
your achievement. No portion Of our
countrymen, wherever found. can eX-
clusiveIy appropriate the glory arising
from these surroundings. They are
proofs of American genius and indus
try which are the joint possession Of
our people and they represent triurnphs
of American skill and ingenuity in
which all our citizens from the high
est to the humblest have a proprietary
right While my fellow citizens Of
Georgia and her neighboring states
may felicitate themselves to the fullest
extent upon such evidences as are
here found Of the growth and prosperi-
ty of interests and enterprises in which
they are especially concerned, cannot
be deprived of the enjoyment afforded
by the reflection that the work that
they have done emphasizes in the sight
of the world the immense resources in
indomitable thrift of the people Of the
United States, 1t seems to me the
thought may be suggested as not map
propriate to this occasion, hat what
we see about Us is an outgrowth Of
another exposition inaugurated on
American soil more than a century ago,
when new nation was exhibited 70
the civilized world guaranteed and
protected by constitution which was
ordained and established by the peo-
pie of the United States with the
declared purpose Of promoting their
general welfare and securing The
blessings Of liberty to themselves and
| their posterity. The success which has
attended this exposition of products
and manufactures is not altogether due
to the quality of the soil or character
of the people in any Of the contributing
states, but it rests largely upon the
fact that these states are members of a
beneficiary governed nation, whose
natural resources and advantages ev-
erywhere have been developed and i'm
proved by the influence of free institu-
| tons and whose people have been stim-
ulated and encouraged by the blessings
of personal liberty. A contemplation
Of the blessings vouchsafed to us by
our government easily reminds us Of
| the importance of a hearty and united
cooperation in its support and protec-
ton. We should lovingly watch and
| guard it, not only because we are re-
| cipients of its precious gifts, but for
| its own sake, and because it has been
| put in our hands in sacred keeping to
prove to the world that man can be
| trusted with self governrn emit We shail
| walk in the path OF patriotic duty, If
| remembering that our free institutions
were established to promote the gen
eral welfare. We strive for those things
| which benefit our people, and if each
| of us is content to receive from a COM
mon fund his share Of the prosperity
| thus contributed, we shall sadly miss
| our duty and forfeit our heritages, If,
/ in narrow selfshness we are needless
! Of the general welfare and struggle 10
wrest from the government private
| advantages which can only be gained
at the expense of our fellow country
men. / hope I may, therefore, be per-
| occasion, the absolute necessity to our
national health and welfare, and conse-
quently to our Individual happiness as
| citizens, of careful discrimination in
| our support of policies and in our ad-
vocaey of political doctrines between
! those which simply seem to serve sell
fish or sectional interests, if we are to
enjoy the blessings our government
was framed to fairly and justly bestow
We shall secure them in due time by
| cultivating a spirit of broad American
| brotherhood and insisting upon such
conduct as will, within the spirit Of
the Golden Rule promote the general
welfare
! TIE roof GU4RDS.