The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-14
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took up the cheering and the exposition |
was open.
The spectacle inside the Sale des |
Fetes was brilliant with color and ami !
nation. The immense circus-shaped hall |
is decorated with magnificent frescoes /
representing categorical subjects by IA |
nous French artists and its stained |
glass cupola bears superb designs by |
hermann and Goodwin. 1t form |
ed beautiful setting for to- |
days ceremony. Every inch of the |
floor space was occupied by an assem- |
blage representative of French art, let /
tiers and sciences and including the lead |
ing military naval and political men OF
France. 1t was mainly an evening dress ]
gathering, but with the taste character /
iStic of the French ration, brilliant uni i
forms of soldiers, the diplomatic corps 1
and republican guards were so inter-
spersed among the gathering that with
masses of pretty spring toliettes OF the 4
ladies, Of whom there were almost as
many as men present the scene was
particularly bright and effective More
over, the light radiated down through 4
the stained glass of the dome-shaped 4
room which illuminated the living mass
below and gave varied t1nts to even the
prosaic, starched shirt fronts
Contrary to expectation the premier,
NJ. Waldeck- Rousseau made no address f
at the opening of the exposition, MN.
Millerand and Loubet being the only
speakers.
NJ. MILLERAND'S ADDRESS.
The minister of commerce, NJ. Mil
lerand, in the course of his speech at the
formal exercises said: THE perSever-
ing efforts and the passionate energy OF
M Picquart (the commissioner generaD
and of his colleagues made possible the
prOd1g1OuS work Which L present TO you
today. One can not, however, without
committing an injustice, extract names
from the notable list of artists, engt-
neers and contractors who were the ar
tiSanS of these marvelS. The universe
is associated with France in this g1gan-
tic enterprise and the government OF
the republic fulfills a very pleasant
duty of hospitality and gratitude in ex-
pressing it's thanks to those sovereigns
and chiefs of state. The visitor to the
exposition will owe the friendly people
who have shown so much eagernesS and
good will in receiving the invitation to
visit the exposition the miracle of being
able in a few minutes to make tour
| of the world. The types of all archi-
| lecture grouped side by side on the two
| banks of the Seine will captivate his
| imagination, while pleasing his vision,
and by natural affiliation of ideas, this
| picturesque display will give birth in his
soul toward the reflection that however
| distant they appear to be from one an
other by education, custom and preju-
dice all the sons of Europe, citizens of
| diverse nationality belong to the same
| family and their duty, like their interest
is to work towards increasing the COM
mon patrimOny of science and of art
| What progress can be realized
| what transformations brought about in
/ the space of only three generations, a
| glance at the Centennial exposition
| would reveal to US. The time will come
when other voices, more authoritative
than mine, will make the inventory of
the artistic treasure enclosed in these
edifices. I will limit my ambition to
recalling how in a hundred years the
face of the material world has been
renewed. Words fail me to express
the grandeur and extent of this eco
| no TOOL under hand
have seen the forces of nature sub
dued and disciplined, steam and cleo
tricity reduced to the role of occult
servants, have transformed the cOndi-
lions of existence. Machinery has be-
come the queen Of the world. In
stalled in power in our factories con-
Structed of iron and steel, she has re-
placed by slow but continuous ilya-
sion the workers of flesh and bone. OF
whom she makes auxiliaries What q
change in human relations Distances
diminish to the point of disappearing
In a few hours are deVOured distances
which were formerly only accomplished
{ at the price of days and of great ia
: tigue. The telephone, that sorcerer
brings to our ear the words and ever
the tone of a friends voice separated
from us by hundreds of miles. The in
tensity and the power of life-of deat1
? itself-recon before the victorious
z march of the human soul The geniu:
. of a PaSteur, pure benefactor of hu
=
/ any shadow, increases a hundred folC
the power of surgery and of medicine
The malady seized at its origin ant
isolated ceases and there appears oil
the horizon the happy period when tn
S epidemicS which ravage cities and decl
mate peoples will no longer be anything
/ but terrifying memories and legends
e the past
\ THUS does science multiply with ad
mirable prodigality the means which sh
t places at the disposal of man to benz
l the exterior forces to her laws, or guar
4 antee him against their hostility. Sh
e renders him a more signal service L
giving up to him the secret of the ma
y terial and moral grandeur of the so
n cieties which can be described in on
e word solidarity
. 1--WE are the heirs of faults as well a
of the meritOrious points of our father
and we are already writing the h1Stor
g of the solidarity of our sons and of on
d ancestors and why should we not do S
o in the case of our contemporaries. w
a must not forget these physical contag
ions the houses of the poor, where tn
II morbid germ of uncultured brains al
y sheltered, where superstition and hatre
ferment, constituting per1ls OF when
n far-seeing intelligence is destined
convince US. We must hasten their dis
J. appearance, triumph over ignorance an
d conquer misery. what hlgher' Wht
more pressing social duty is there?
f. the most generous altruism and II
= sweetest of sentiment find in themselV'
20 their reward and diffuse in personal II
lie terest its most thorough justification
Is imagine the outcome of mutual assis
ance of syndicates and associations
All descriptions destined to group then
selves into one sheaf, resisting indivi'
uaI weakness, so many proofs of huma
j.. solidarity It aims to lessen in the boSo
~ of each nation, the shocking 1neQualltl
resulting from nature or from Il
k regime.
re ut proposes to unite in the bonds
IL a real fraternity the children of san
at / Teonle Rl1t it's effects do not stop
ne / frontiers interests ideas and sent
in ments interlningle and cross each 9th
~ over the whole surface of the globe Ill
IS those light threads in which humS
be thonght foats-benefcent complexi
Id which permits us already to discern
Mt new era of which only yesterday a n
al,la Initial forced at The Hag1