Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-10-13
n KINLEY At OMAHA.
ne Presidents Address at the Trans
mississippi Exposition.
TRIBUTE TO ARMY AND NAVY
announcement HEnde That the Nation
Cannot Shirk international Re-
&pnnSibilities - Tenn ptntiOn OF
Aggression to BE Avoided.

nahas peace jubilee and Presidents
~ at the Transmississippi exposition
,pened with a lowering sky. Soon,
however, the sun burst forth in all Its
| adance, making the hearts OF thou
i ;qnds of people feel easier. The presl-
.ent was up early and was soon in the
,arlors of the Omaha club, where he
erected the members of his party and
'ther distinguished callers.
The presidential party, escorted by
/ resident Wattles and members Of the
.t4rtairmept committee in carriages,
hen started for the exposition grounds.
Fhey We're headed by a platoon of
counted police, While the president and
Darty were escorted by the board of
governors Of the AkSar Ben, mounted
and dressed in their regalia. The party
proceeded directly to the grand plaza
an the bluff tract of the exposition,
| where, in thu music pavilion, the formal
exercises of the day occurred.
The president in his address spoke
| IN part as follows:
"Gentlemen of the Transmississippi
Exposition and Fellow Citizens:
1T is with great pleasure that meet
once more the people of Omaha, whoGe
wealth Of welcome is not altogether I'M
familiar to me and whose warm hearts
have before touched and moved me.
For this renewed manifestation of your
regard and for the cordial reception of
today my heart responds with profound
gratitude and a deep appreciation
which I 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 he states of the trans
mississippi group participating here,
and l cannot withhold congratulations
on the evidences of their prosperity
furnished by this great exposition. If
testimony We're needed to establish the
fact that their plucl. has not deserted
them ana that prosperity is again with
them. it is found here. This picture
dispels all doubt.
Groarcss
Zone of the great laws of life is prog
rcs7,' and nowhere have the principles
of this law been 50 strikingly ilustrat-
ed as in the United States. A century
and decade Of cur national life have
turned doubt into conviction changed
experiment into demonstration, revolu-
tion2ed old methods and won new tri-
umphs which have challenged the at
tention of the world. This is true not
only Of the accumulation of material
wealth and advance in education. sci
ence, invention and manufactures, but,
above all, in the opportunities to the
people for their own elevation, which
have been secured by wise, free govern
ment
Hitherto, in peace and in war, with
additions to our territory and slight
changes in cur laws, we have steadily |
enforced the spirit of the constitution
secured to US by the noble self sacrifice |
and farseeinS sagacity of our ancestors |
We have avoided the temptations of |
conquest in the spirit of gain. With an
increasing love for cur institutions and
an abiding faith in their stability, we
have made the triumphs of our system |
OF government in the progress and pros
perlty Of our people an inspiration to
the whole human race Confronted at
this moment by new and grave prob
lens, we must recognize that their So
luton VIII affect not ourselves alone.
but Others of the family of nations.
In this age of frequent interchange
and mutual dependency we cannot
shlrk our International responsibilities
if we would. They must be met with
courage and wisdom, and we must fol-
low duty even if desire opposes No de-
liberation can he too mature or self con-
troll tco constant in this solemn hour of
our history. We must avoid the temp
tatton Of undue aggression and aim to
SecuIe orly such results as VIII promote
pur own AMI lho general good. 1t has
pean 5iid ~ SERGE one that the normal
condition Of nations is war That is not
true of the United states. We never
enter upon war until every effort for
peace without it has been exhausted.
Ours has never been a military govern
ment. Peace with whose blessings we
have been so singu!ally favored, is the
national desire and the goal of every
American aspiration.
The War.
"Cn the 25th of April, for the first time
or more than generation, the United
states sounded the call to arms The
banners of war were unfurled, the best :
md DtaVest from every section respond {
I'd, q mighty army was enrolled the
lorth and the south WED with each 9TH
n in patriotic devotion, science was in {
'oked to furnish lis most effective weap-
ms. factories We're rushed to supply {
equipments, the youth and the veteran
oined in freely Offering their services
o tIe country, and volunteers and reg
liars and all the people rallied to the {
upport of the republic. There was no
reak in the line, no halt in the march. y
10 fear in the heart, no resistance to :
ne patriotic impulse at home, no sue -
essfui resistance to the patriotic spirit :.
the troops fighting in distant waters n
r on a foreign shore.
what q wonderful experience it has '
cen from the standpoint of patriotism y.
nd achievement! The storm broke so
uGdenly tnat it was here almost before
'e realized it. Our navy was too small.
housh forceful with it's modern equip ;,
lent and most fortunate in it's trained 9,
Ulcers and sailors. Our army had T,
ears ago he,n reduced to peace foot n
1F. We had only $4,000 available troops -
hen the war was declared, but the -,
cco,nt which officers and men gave of ;,
on the blttlefelds has never -,
cen surpassed. The manhood was IN
here and every where. American pa :,
'iotism was there, and it's resources
ere limitless.
THE courageous and invincible spirit
the people proved glorious, and those /
no little more than third of a CEN ]
Try ago were divided and at war with q