The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-06
THE PLUMED KNIGHT
WILD CHEERS GREET MENTION OF
BLAINE's NAME AT BUFFALO.
IT WAS PRESIDENTS DAY.
AND THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH
THE PRINCIPAL ATTRACTION.

dispositions Are the Timekeepers of
Progress'-Men Brought Closer TO-
Gether Each Day, Says the Presi-
dent, and This Is Not the Time for
IsoIation-BIaine Was the Father
of the Pan-American Spirit-Presi-
dent Favors Reciprocity Treaties
with the south American Repub-
Iics-The Day of ExcIusiveness Is
Past.
Buffalo. N. Y, Sept. 5.-President's
Day at the Pan-American Exposition
ran its course under every suspicious
condition, and was attended with every
circumstance in keeping with its high
import.
President Mckinley with Mrs. Nc
Kinley, by his side, and surrounded by
eminent persons of high rank in the
service of this and foreign countries,
faced vast throng of people in the
Esplanade at noon to-day, and deliv-
cred an address that brought forth the
thunderous applause of the multitude.
Never before has such a crowd gath
cred within the exposition grounds.
The people were packed in the Esplan-
ade to the point of suffocation and
overlooked down the court of fountains
and to the vacant spaces in front of the
government building at the right and
the horticultural building to the left
The Presidents words were listened to
attentively by the audience. His ref
erences to the name of Blaine as the
man inseparably associated with the
Pan-American movement; the state
ments that reciprocity treaties are in
harmony with the spirit of the times
that the American people must build
the isthmian canal and the Pacific ca
BILE and encourage our merchant ma
rine service. and that isolation is no
longer possible or desirable, were par
ticularly well received.
Twenty mounted police and twenty
members of the signal corps escorted
the President to the Lincoln parkway
entrance to the Exposition grounds
There the President was met by de-
tachments of the United States ma
rines and the seacoast artillery and
the SiXty-fifth and Seventy fourth
New York State National Guard regi-
ments unler Gen. S. M WEIGH. A
Presidents salute of twenty-one guns
was fred. The President was at once
escorted to the stand erected in the
Esplanade, where President Mnburn
introduced the President as follows:
Ladies' and Conference.-The ,Presi-
dent
The great audience then broke out
with a mighty cheer, which continued
as President Mckinley arose and it
was some minutes before he was able
to proceed. When quiet was restored |
the President said
The President Speaks.
"Expositions are the timekeepers of
progress. They record the worlds ad-
vancement. They stimulate the energy,
enterprise and intellect of the people |
and quicken human genius. They go
into the home. They broaden and
brighten the daily life of the people.
They open mighty storehouses of in
formation to the student. Every ex-
position, great or small. has helped to
some onward step. Comparison of
ideas is always educational, and as
such instructs the brain and hand of
man, Friendly rivalry follows, which
is the spur to industrial improvement,
the inspiration of useful invention and !
to high endeavor in all departments
of human activity. 1t eXacts study |
of the wants, comforts and even the
whims of the people and recognizes |
the efficacy of high quality and low |
prices to win their favor The quest |
of trade is an incentive to men of |
business to devise, invent, improve and
economize in the cost of production.
Business life, whether among ourselves
or wi other people, is ever sharp |
struggle for success. 1t will be none |
the less so in the future. But though |
commercial competitors we are, COM
mercial enemies we must not be.
1.-THE wisdom and energy of all the |
nations are none too great Tor the
worlds work. The success of art, sci |
ence, industry and invention is an in
ternational asset and a common glory.
After all how near one to the other |
is every part of the world. Modern |
inventions have brought into close re-
lation widely separated peoples, and
made them better acquainted. Geog-
graphic and political divisions will con-
tinue to exist, but distances have been |
effaced. Swift ships and fast trains
are becoming cosmopolitan. They in
wade fields which a few years ago were |
impenetrable The worlds products |
are exchanged as never before, and
with increasing transportation facili-
ties come increasing knowledge and |
larger trade.
We DO Things Better Now.
Market prices of products and of
securities are hourly known in every |
commercial mart, and the investments |
of the people extend beyond their own |
national boundaries into the remotest |
parts of the earth. Vast transactions |
are conducted and international ex-
changes are made by the tick of the |
cable. Every event of interest is inn
mediately bulletined. The quick gath
ering and submission of news, like |
rapid transit. are of recent origin and |
are only made possible by the genius |
OF the inventor and the courage of the |
investor. 1t took a special messenger |
OF the government, with every facility |
known at the time for rapid travel,
nineteen days to go from the city of
Washington to New Orleans with a |
message to Gen. Jackson, that war
with England had ceased, and a treaty |
OF peace had been signed. How differ |
ent now We reached Gen. Miles in
Porto Rico by cable. and he was able
through the military telegraph to stop |
ms army on the firing |
Inc with the message that |
the United States and Spain |
mad signed a protocol suspending hos
ullties. We knew almost instantly of |
the first shots fired at Santiago and |
me subsequent surrender of the Span !
ism forces was known at Washington |