Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-10-26

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\, AfIuir is - Great Success.
ph;ladelnhia, Pa, Oct. "a. Delaware
!. was celebrated in enthusiastic style
;be Philadelphia Export Exposition,
Sf TSc special train bearing Gov. Tun-
and stall and Others from the State
rired at South street station about
n o'clock. These arrivals, with
bprs who had come before them.
,med in parade, the governor and his
III being in carriages, and headed by
arrst Regiment Band Of Wilmington
vrbed to the Auditorium, where the
,ycisss were held. The attendance
nj. timc numbered nearly 1000.
Nayor Ashbridge of Philadelphia
secd the visiting Delawareans in a
nm address of welcome.
Lewis G. Vandegrift, chairman of
Delaware Day committee of ar
[Drements, was then introduced and
bd.
Gpntemen of the National Export
mosition: As Delawareans Wa have
;tpped with great pleasure to the well
Dne you have, through the mayor Of
Il; great city, extended to us. 1t is
Il for me to undertake to respond TO
generous words. We have with us
bers far better fitted for that duty
Otb BY their position and abilities.
His Excallency, the Governor OF
D,ayare is here with us today, aud
trough him our beloved State speaks.
will in his expressions of good will
not ess generous towards the people
this great Commonwealth than has
our honored mayor been towards us.
have the pleasure to introduce the
loo. Ebe W. Tunnel, governor of
Delaware.
Briefly, Gov. Tunnel expressed his
easure at being present, and returned
be thanks of the Delawareans for
heir reception.
Nj. Vandegrift then said: "Gentie-
ten, in order that you may form some
s conception of our appreciation Of
be Welcome your mayor has extended
i, take pleasure in asking another
stnguished son of Delaware to
cOnd the governors remarks. Let
DO introduce to you the Hon. Anthony
higgins.
MIR. HIGGINS SPEECH.
Mr.. Higgins said in effect:
The people of Delaware have always
BAD a kind feeling for their neiehbors
Pennsylvania and Philadelphia.
Nhen Penn came over and Pennsylvania
fas born, the three counties in Della
ARE an organized government nearly
years old, promptly annexed her.
G near quarter Of a century there
itel We were in a common government
Fth her. Laws that bound Pennsyl-
Fsnia were enacted at New Castle, and
aEs that bound Delaware were enacted
\ Upland. AT length manifesting an
dependence which she has never dis
afded, Delaware seeded and set up
'n herself. But the close relations be-
iEeen the two communities still
ingelGd. While each had q separate
legislature, they were under COM
hon proprietory governor, When Penn
ElVania ejected John Dickinson from
he Continental Congress in the midst
tho revolution, he returned Mt once
% Delaware, and we sent him back to
Congress, to adorn it's halls and animate
s councils. Thomas MoKean, who
'gned the Declaration from Delaware,
ind wrote our first Constitution. te-
came President of Pennsylvania and
then her fist chief Justice. Delaware
has always been quick to aid Philadel-
pa in her patriotic endeavors. Here
dependence was declared, and when
The casting vote for that momentous
icl was needed, we gave her the vote
4 Rodney ana OF Delaware. Here the
Constitution of the United States was
framed, and Delaware was the first
Slato to iatify it.
Philadelphia has always been broadly
lahonal in her spirit and in her
|%heyements. Tho Centennial Exposi
llOn Of 1876 was greatly conceived and
greatly executed. Ii was worthy of the
sallrn's birth which II commemorated.
Her celebration of the Centennial of
!ae iTamirg of the Constitution of the
United States in 1887 was equally
worthy of that second great event in
lae nations history. Today she is
agaln at tho forefront in another epoch
10 'he national progress, hardly less
grand and important. Applying the
Scientific spirit and method to CONNER
.lal matters, she has here established
NE Commercial Museums, and has now
lolo@ed it up with this commercial
eSIcsltion, which we of Delaware have
coile ~, here to enjoy and to honor today.
Mhlle some grope and others phil
Ssophlse, it is again left for Philadel-
Iala 10 act. And again as before not
o' herself alone, in no spirit of manner
" exclusive selfishness. but in her ever
Sload and patriotic spirit she has acted
SSsr the whole nation and continent.
enc sae rehlized, what possibly has not
elNhed upot all, that American de.
ttoPment having attained its owr
uOraers, must, If we are to maintain
vuf high standard of comfort and vel.
.@e e'leach out to share If not command,
nF e, markets of the world.
me country has not duly estimated
ao iact that it has no longer left any
SS.alItbe land for homesteading Uncle
sam IS no longer "rich enough to give
all farm" For the first tint
,tnc9 " the English landed at jamestown,
.ae Dutch at New York and the Swede!
~ ~ wilmington, the American you'll
TGrh ;Iih without fortune does not have tn,
,,nllnltable West, in which to find 9
,afln s' and found a home. Barring thu
s;Iu ,ia aud mountain lands, a whole con
nla %nenl has been appropriated by peo
", X ho% VINO have grown from 5000, 600 tt
n Wmuuo' 600 in. a century and a quarter.
"aat now will the American youth do
aul w., born to fortune. A century and I
suarteF of national life has been alb
;;aroed = in affairs of domestic concern
soDs ~ sell contemplation, profound ant
SSrunattlhleus, in our politics, and in re
I1"t'ng 1a., u continent TO possession. A
sa Ss' we are forced to turn our gazI
""soad. ""sId 7 our youths are to find occu
paiun' pa.it' II our people ale to find pros
mtily, pp II must be in supplying not onl.
sHf ~ surplus products of agriculture, bu
Gn h.. OF our manufacturers to the mar
av's !, US, Of tho world. We are entering OIL