The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-04

tribes from this evil. Wherever by in
 ternational agreement this same enc
 can be attained as regards races where
 we do not possess exclusive control, ev.
 cry effort should be made to bring ii
 about.
 Expeditions
 I bespeak the most cordial support
 from the congress and the people fol
 the St. Louis Exposition to commence
 rate the one hundredth anniversary oi the Louisiana purchase. This pur-
 chase was the greatest instance of ex-
 pansion in our history. It definitely de-
 cided that we were to become great
 continental republic, by far the fore
 most power in the western hemisphere.
 It is one of three or four great land
 marks in our history-the great turning
 points in our development. It is emi-
 nently fitting that all our people should
 join with heartiest good will in com-
 memorating it, and the citizens of St. Louis, of Missouri of all the adjacent region, are entitled to every aid in mak-
 ing the celebrating noteworthy event in our annals. We earnestly hope that foreign nations will appreciate the deep interest our country takes in this eX- position, and our view of it's importance from every standpoint, and that they will participate in securing it's success. The national government should be rep resented by a full and complete set of exhibits.
 The people of Charleston, with great energy and civic spirit, are carrying on an exposition which will continue | throughout most of the present session | of congress. I heartily commend this exposition to the good will of the peo- pie. It deserves all the encouragement that can be given It. The managers of l the Charleston Exposition have request ed the cabinet officers to place thereat l the government exhibits which have been at Buffalo, promising to pay the necessary expenses. I have taken the responsibility of directing that this be done, for feel that it is due to Charles ton to help her in her praiseworthy ef- fort In my opinion the management should not be required to pay all these expenses. I earnestly recommend that the congress appropriate at once the small sm necessary for this purpose.
 The Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo has just closed. Both from the industrial and the artistic standpoint this exposition has been in a high de- gree creditabe and useful, not merely to Buffalo but to the United States The terrible tragedy of the presidents assassination intefered materially with it's being q financial success. The eX- position was peculiarly in harmony with the trend of our public policy, be- cause it represented an effort to bring into closer touch all the peoples of the western hemisphere, and give them an increasing sense of unity. Such an ef fort was a genuine service to the entire American public.
 Educational.
 The advancement of the highest inter- ests of national science and learning and the custody of7objects of art and of the valuable results of scientific ex- petitions conducted by the United States have been committed to the | mithsonian Institution. In further ance of it's declared purpose-for the increase and diffusion of knowledge | among men"-the congress has from time to time given it other important | functions. Su ch trusts have been exe- cuted by the institution with notable | fidelity. There should be no halt in the | work of the institution, in accordance | with the plans which it's secretary has | presented, for the preservation of the l vanishing races of great North Ameri- can animals in the National Geological Park The urgent needs of the Nation- al museum are recommended to the fa- !, vorable consideration of the congress.
 Perhaps the most characteristic edu- cational movement of the past fifty years is that which has created the modern public library and developed it into broad active service. There are now over fl vethousand public libraries in the United States, the product of this period. In addition to accumula- ting material, they are aslo striving by by improvement in meth od, and by cooperation, to give greater efficiency to the material they hold, to make it more widely useful and by avoidance of unnecessary duplication in process to reduce the cost if its ad- 
 In these efforts they naturally look for assistance to the Federal library, which, though still the Library of Con- sress, and so entitled, is the one nation Il library of the United States. AL 'eady the largest single collection of books on the western hemisphere, and certain to increase more rapidly than my other through purchase exchange md the operation of the copyright law, his library has q unique opportunity , o render to the libraries of this coun ry-to American schoarship-service if the highest importance. It is housed n a building which is the largest and ,, most magnificent yet erected for libra /, y uses. Resources are now being pro- ,ided which will develop the collection properly, equip 1t with the apparatus md service necessary to it's effective se, render it's photographic work wide y available and enable it to become, ! ot merely center of research, but the : hef factor in great cooperative efforts or the diffusion of knowledge and the dvancement of learning. ]
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