Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-20
At THE PANAMER|CAN EA.
Dinner Given by the Board of Di.
rectors to the National Edu-
cationaI Association.
lARGEsT IN THE HISTORY OF BUFFALO.
Hon. John Hay. Secretary of State, the
Guest of Honor, Presents a Glowin
Word Picture of the Past, Present and
Future-A Forerunner of "a Brother
hood of Man.

Guest of Honor, Presents a Glowing
Word Picture of the Past, Present and
Future-A F~orerunner of "A Brother
hood of Man.
Buffalo, n. Y, June 1.-THE pres
ence of men of national prominence
N the sports i'll the Stadium at
traeted thousands to the Pan-AmerI-
can exposition yesterday. Secretary
of State John Hay was b guest OF
honor at a dinner given last night 10y
the board of directors of the exposi-
ton to the National Editorial asso-
citation. One thousand covers were
laid in the dining room in Statler's
hotel, the banquet being the largest
in the history of the city. Secretary
Hay was introduced by ~Director-Gen-
eral Buchanan, who presided. Mr..
Hay spoke in part as follows:
Last night as / looked from my
window at this marvellous creation.
lined in fire upon b evening sky.
and to-day as l have walked through
the courts and palaces of this incom-
parable exhibition, the words of the
prophet have been constantly in my
mind: Your old men shall dream
dreams; your young men shall see
Visions This ideal of the Brother
hood of the Nations of the western
world is not a growth of yesterday.
1t was heralded when the country
was young by the clarion voice of
Henry Clay; it was cherished by
Seward and Evarts, by Douglas and
by Blaine. Twelve years ago we held
the first reunion of the American re-
publics. Much was said and done, des-
tined t O be memorable in our history.
opening and blazing the way along
the paths of peace and fraternal rela-
tions. We have made steady prog
ress; we have grown day by day to
a better understanding until now we
are looking to our coming conference
in the City of Mexico, in which we
have the right to hope that, with
larger experiences and profounder
study of the great problems before
US, results still more important and
benefiCent will be reached.
There have been statesmen and
soldiers who have cherished the fancy
in past years of a vast American
army, recruited from every country
between the Arctic and Antarctic
seas, which should bind us together
in one immense military power that
might ovcrawe the older civilizations.
But this conception belongs to the
past-to an order of things that has
gone, 1 hape, forever. How far more
inspiring is the thought of the re-
suits we see here now; how much
more IN keeping with the better times
in whose light we live and the still
more glorious future to which we
look forward, is the result we see to-
day of the armies of labor and intel
Iigence in every country of this new
world, all working with N mind N
one will, not to attain an unhappy
pre-eminence in the art of destruc-
ton, but to advance in liberal emula-
ton in the arts which tend to make
happier and better, to make this long
harrassed and tormented earth a
brighter and more blessed abode for
men of good will. [Applause.]
"Al the triumphs of the spirit and
of the skilled hands of labor; the
garnered treasures of science. the
witcheries of art, the spoils of earth,
thu dAI III SCds an SathCACu ACAS W
warn, to delight, to encourage and
reward the ever-striving, the indomi-
table mind of man. Here you have
fierce which enables men to conquer
and tame the powers of nature
wealth, not meant, as Tennyson sang,
to rest in moulded heaps, but smit
with the free light to melt and fat
ten lower lands; beauty, not for the
selfish qualification of the few, but
for the Joy of the many, to fill their
DAYS with gladness and their nights
with music. And, lowering I'VE all,
the sublime, the well-nigh divine con
ception of a brotherhood of mutually
helpful Iations, fit harbinger and
forerunner of a brotherhood of man.
GOD forbid that there should be
In all this the slightest hint of vain
glory, still less of n to the rest
of the world. On the contrary, we
can not but think hat this friendly
challenge we send out to all peoples
-convoking them also to join in this
brotherly emulation in which the
prizes are, after all, merely the right
to further peaceful progress in good
work-will be to the benefit and
profit of every country under the
wide heaven"
Other speakers were Gov. A. Is.
White. of West Virginia; Walter
Williams, of Missouri; Herbert p.
Bissell, of Buffalo; Col. Henry, OF
Mississippi; Senator Landon, OF
North Carolina; z. H. Baumgartner,
of California, and Joe Mitchell Chap
pelle, of Boston.
To-day, Friday, will be celebrated
with ceremonies in the Temple OF
Music
Parade of Modern
O. n. N;Dn Time 1.-the Mod.