Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-10-05
Opening Of Spokanes Second
Annual Fruit Fair.
NEARLY 5000 IN ATTENDANCE
Governor Mcdonnell Of Idaho Makes an
Address That pleHscs the Big
Audiences.


Idaho formally opened the Spokan
fruit fair yesterday afternoon. II
made a happy speech, which was FIRE
quentIy Interrupted with applause.
The governor spoke from the bant
stand, and every word could be dis
tinctly heard throughout the immens
building. The band played Hail Col
umbia" as the governor, Mayor Bel
and J. w. Binkley, president of tn
Spokane Bureau Of immigration, as
cended the steps.
The governor was introduced by Pres
ident Binlley and there was burst o
applause from the large audience Whe1
he rose to speak. He said:
Mr. Chairman and Fellow Citizens o
Washington, Idaho and Oregon: We ar
here for the purpose Of formally opening
this fair, for which enterprise You arr
under obligations to the bureau OF imml
grafton Of the city Of Spokane. For t
this people entirely we owe this eNhlbi
ton.
AS you have perhaps noticed, this struc
ture was not intended for speech making
Therefore l Will not attempt TO perpetratt
one upon you. For you must recognize
how difficult it is to address an audience
under these conditions.
In common with other Idahoans l an
proud of SpOkane-proud because we fee
that we built it. The brick in your mas
SiVe structures were, many or them
brought from Moscow, Idaho, and the
lumber in your beautiful edilices was
nearly all of it stolen from our state
Uaughter).
Every structure must have goo(
foundation to have it's permanence as
sured. When your enterl- Using people
proposed to build the brick blocks W1lcf
4 - H. dino y
the soil and conveyed from the stale Of
Idaho massive granite blocks upon Wh1cf
the structure was to be erected So 1t Is
with the erection of every structure
whether it be that of our human lives OF
that of our commemorative. Inc fOunda
ton of our lives is laid in our pubic
schools, our Sunday schools, our homes
and churches, and If that foundation Is
neglected the structure is apt to be
failure If we would maintain our integ
ritV as a nation, continue to uphold tina
beautiful flag with which this exhibition
is so lavishly decorated, we must lay the
foundation of our citizenship deep anC
broad in our public schools. So II yol
make the state Of Washington what i
should be, one of the greatest and mos
promising of our sisterhOod of states, i
must be peopled by frugal, enterprisins
and industrious people, whose industry
is well directed. You must organize aS
farmers, as horticulturists, stock rails
ers, as miners, as lawyers and as news
paper men-not for the purpose of in
dulging in politics and making yourselves
policemen or even mayors, but for th'
promotion Of the particular industry o.
vocation in which you are engaged, ant
by the building up of that industry or Vo
cation assist the enterprises of you
state, and by all pulling together you ma!
create commonwealth of which genera
tons to come Will be proud.
To you as citizens of Spokane l deSlr
to say, with all your push, energy an'
enterprise l am astonished that you haV'
not before now devised ways and mean
to bring water upon the beautiful pralrl
between here and Occur d Alene City am
Post Falls. Having been a citizen of tn
arid districts of the west for many years
and having constructed the first irrigation
ditch in southern Idaho, am accus tonne
to Judge of country as l pass over it
And l say to you there Is no better dis
trict for horticulture than this eXten
siVe prairie to which l refer. For tn
purposes of irrigation it is really bette
than II it had a clay soil. Hayden lax
has ample water and Post Falls has am
pie power, while science has demonstrate
the method by which that power may b
conveyed-that of electricity. A pumpin
station run by wire or wires at som
point on that lake would make this en-
tire district bloom like the rose.
Owing to the fact that so large POI
ton of our state can not be cultivate
without irrigation, you have receive
thousands of immigrants that ought I
have settled with us in Idaho. The grea
bulk Of the early immigration comm
here, approaching the fertility of the so
of north Idaho and its advantages of woo
and water, settled in Kootenai, Latah an
Nez Perez counties.
We IN the northern part of our stat