The times., 1897-06-03
Representatives Of Many Ma
tiOns Present at the Opening.
BANQUET In THE EVENING
Notable Speeches Made-Mr. Mem
donca's Strong Advocacy of Free
of North and South Anerica-The
Address OF President Mckinley.

sylyarsa Railroad offlce, on f'oufth street,
was formally opened today by President
McKinles in the presence OF q gathering
OF notabIes from Washington and repre-
sentat atiyes from leading trade bodies in
the United States, Mexico, Central and
South America. The event had an inter
national significance, owing TO the pres
ence OF diplomatic representatives from
other countries, chiefly those on the Ameri-
can continent.
The meeting OF the advisory board
yesterday was preliminary TO the formal
opening day. The Presiuent and Mrs. Nc
Ksnley, attended by Secretary Wilson and
Attorney General McKenna. and acconipan-
led by number of members OF Congress and
the ministerial representatives. from Mexico,
Chill, Argentine Republic, Brazil, Vene-
zuela, Korea and China, arrived in the
city shortly before noon and were Wei
coined by Mayor Warwick, Dr. Peffer,
president of the Commercial Museums;
President Thomson, Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company and committee OF
citizens
Gov Hastings, who was at the Hotel
Walton, did not appear at the railway
station. The ladies Of the party We're taken
in charge by local committee OF women,
and the President and ether visitors were
driven directto the Museum Building, where
formal inspection was made, and lunch
eon served. At thei luncheon Gov. Hast
ings appeared, hut no en-of recognition
passed between hm and President McKin-
ey.
The exercises attending the formal open
ing at the Museum were held at the
Academy of Music at O'Clock in The
afternoon.
Phila;.eiphia tonight dined it's guests,
the President and the diplomatic repre-
sentatives OF South America, Mexico and
Korea and Canada, in tine colossal struc-
ture known as the bourSe, which looked
CAV in a radiance of lights ana a swaih-
ing of bunting Under the guardianship
Of the mayor of Philadelphia, the Presi-
dent ard invited guests, numbering AGO,
were brought into cordial relations with
South American and Oriental diplomat
Isis
The great commerce of the city was we'll
represented. Two members of the Cabinet,
Secretaries Wilson and McKenna, were
present. as was also former Secretary Of
State Richard olney. He responded to the
toast International Law" The other
speakers were Il ov. Hastings, who extended
hearty words of welcome; Minister Men
donca. Of Brazil; President Mckinley, Con-
gresham Dalzell, of Pittsburg, and the
Mexican. Argentine, and Chinese ministers
Mr. Olney paid a tribute TO the pro-
nlotcrs of the museums. The AnglO-SaNcn
IN America. he said, asked nothing but
fair field and DO favors One thing he
must have TO prosper, and that is free
and fuH access to all the markets of the
world The Ameri can man OF bust
ness wants also to conduct his foreign
trade in American bottoms under the
American nag.
The true basis Of a navy is a merchant
marine. Every nation means TO buy in the
cheapest market and sell in the dearest
Tie more intellgently and exactly the
test of selfish advantage is applied the
more inevitable viii seem the conclusion
that intimate commercial intercourse be-
tweea tIe several states of this hemisphere
- one Of those things which are ordained
10y natural laws-which can be only tenn
porarily checked and limited by artificial
conditions.
In his address of welcome, Gov Hastings
said:
This occasion we confidently hope viii
mark the beginning of a system of trade
relations which will shortly grow into
national and commercial significance;
which will bear all the fruits OF true
commercial reciprocity; which will bind
together as one family the pan-American
republics: which, injuring none, viii bene-
fit oil, and which, hope and believe, win
eventually unite and cement the nations Of
the western hemisphere together in the
bonds of mutual interest and advantage,
and which viii constitute perpetual con-
gress of peace
Minister Mendonca, of Brazil, took strong
ground for free trade, between the states Of
the Western Hemisphere, and pointed out
the vast markets in South America which
high tariff will cut off He said:
Il am sure influential commissioners Of
the manufacturers and merchants of this
country have gone to Washington to plead
our common cause under the dome of the
Capitol. They have gone there to say
that this continent is today covered by a
net, the ineshes of which are so connected
that if one s broken the whole corabina-
ton Will be impaired: that our eighteen
republics, with similar institutions and
similar purposes are destined in future, if
not TO be boundiI a continental Confedera-
ton, TO constitute at least All American
Zollvercin; that henceforth the motto
Z Pluribus Unum' viii be realized in the
commercial sense
ITO attain such an end your commission
crs have certainly said that the need of
the times is not retaliation, but real reci-
prOcity: that the North and the South have
entirely different purposes, which can be
interchanged with mutual advantage: that
some of our raw materials are as necessary
to you as some Of your manufactures are
Indispensable to us; that the two interests
ought to be harmonized, and not arrayed ia
conflict
''rhe Inauguration Of the Philadelphia
museums is another step In the right
direction. When, in the course of time,
the New Zealander of Macauley shall visit
the vast solitude OF the ruins of London,
when the Brazilian of unborn capital in
the motherland shall search the stones of
the monastery of Batalha for the annals
of past greatness, and the citizen of Cuba
shall unearth in the foundations of Escurial
the symbol of past martyrdom, fIom the bay
of Hudson to the straits of Magellan, a
mighty machinery of freedom shall be in
action, driven 10y the compound genius
oftwo races already allied in your language,
power shall be merely and simply the good
will among American republics
President Mckinley spoke as follows:
"Mr- Toastmaster, gentlemen of the
manufacturers and delegates TO the ma
tional convention, ladies and gentlemen:
For the oordiality of your reception 1