Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-11-05

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ri Exposition and Fellow Citizens.-It
is with genuine pleasure that | meet
once more the people of Omaha, whose
wealth of welcome is not altogether
unfamiliar to me and whose warm
hearts have before touched and moved
NE. For this renewed manifestation
of your regard and for the cordial re-
ception of today my heart responds
with profound gratitude and a deep ap-
probation which 1 cannot conceal and
which the language Of compliment Is
Inadequate to convey.
MY greeting is not alone to your
city and the state of Nebraska, but to
the people of all the states Of the trans
mississippi group participating here,
| cannot withhold congratulations on
the evidence of their prosperity fur
nlshed by this great exposition. If tes-
timony were needed to establish the
fact that their pluck has not deserted
them, and that prosperity is again
Win IhNAu, L II lOulu hOlCs lhlo plS
ture dispels all doubt.
PROGRESS OF THE NATION.
I'm an age of eXpositions they have
added yet another magnificent exam
Ele. The historical celebrations at
Philadelphia and Chicago, and the
splendid exhibits at New Orleans, At
lanta and Nashville, are now a part Of
the past, and yet in influence they still
live, and their beneicient results are
closely interviewer with our national
development. Similar rewards will
honor the authors and patrons of the
Transmisslssippi Exposition. Their
contribution will mark another epoch
In the nations material advancement.
Zone Of the gerat laws o fife is pro-
sress and nowhere have the principles
Of this law been so strikingly illustrat-
ed as in the United States. A century
and a decade Of our national life have
turned doubt into conviction; changed
experiment into demonstration; revolt
utionized old methods, and won new
triumphs which have challenged the
attention Of the world. This Is true
not only Of the accumulation Of mater
iai wealth and advance In education,
science. invention and manufactures,
but above all in the opportunities to
the people for their own elevation
which have been secured by wise, free
government.
CONFRONTED BY NEW PROBLEMS
Hitherto, in peace and in war, with
additions to our territory and slight
changes in our laws, we have steadily
enforced the spirit of the constitution
secured to us by the noble self-sacriice
and far-seelng sagacity Of our ances-
tors. We have avoided the tempta-
tons Of conquest In the spirit of gain.
With increasing love for our institu-
tons and an abiding faith in their
stability, we have made the triumphs
o. our system Of government In the
progress and the prosperity Of u peo-
pic an inspiration to the whole human
rice. Confronted at this moment by
new and grave problems, we must re-
cognize that their solution will affect
not ourselves alone but others Of the
family of nations.
I'm this age of frequent interchange
and mutual dependency we cannot
shirk our international responsibilities
n we would. They must be met with
courage and wisdom and we must fol-
low duty, even if desire opposes. No
elaboration can be too mature, or self
control too constant, In this solemn
hour Of our history. We must avoid
the temptation OF undue aggression
and aim to secure only such results as
will promote our own apSNhe general
good.
"It has been said by some n that
the normal condition of nations Is war.
That is not true Of the United States.
never enter upon war until every
fort for pease without 1t has been ex-
hausted. Ours has never been a militia
r, government. Peace, with whose
blessings we have been SO ~singularly /