The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-05
o. E. DIVERSION, EDITOR AND MANAGER.
President MCKinIey'S
 Last Public Address.
Delivered on Thursday, Sept. 9th, 1901, at the Pan-AmerlCan Ex-
 position in Buffalo, N. Y.

Buffalo and exchange greetings with he
 people, to whose generous hospitality
 am not stranger, and with whose goo
 will have been repeatedly and sing
 ully honored. Today I have ad
 ditional satisfaction in meeting an, giving welcome to the foreign represent
 atives assembled here whose presenc,
 and participation in this exposition hay,
 contributed Tn so marked degree to it
 interest and its success.
 To commissioners of the Dominion
 of Canada ard the British colonies, tn,
 French colonies, the republics of Mex ico and of Central and South America
 and the commissioners of Cuba ant
 Porto Rico, xho share with us in thi
 undertaking, We give the hand of fel
 lowship and felicitate with them upol
 tie triumphs of art, scince. education
 and manufacture which the old has be
 queathed to the new century.
 Propositions are the timekeepers o
 progress. They record the worlds ad-
 Yancemen.. They stimulate tlIe energy.
 enterprise and intellect of the people and quicken human genus. They go
 into the home. They broaden and
 brighten the daily life of the people. They open mighty storehouses of infor- nation to the student.
 Every exposition, great or small, has helped to some onward step. Compar, ison of ideas is always educational i; and as such instructs the brain and hand of man. Friendly rivalry follows, which is the spur 10 industrial improve ment, the inspiration to useful invention and to high endeavor in all departments Of human activity. It exacts study of the wants, comforts and even the whims of the people and recognizes the efficacy of high quality and new prices to win their favor.
 "The quest for trade is an incentive to man of business to devise, invent, improve and economize in the cost of production. Business lite, wheather among ourselves or with other people, is ever sharp struggle for success. It will be done the less so in the future. competition we wonld be cling ing to the clumsy and sntiquated pro- cess of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, ard the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century. But tho commercial competitors we are, enemies we must not be.
 ''The Pan-American exposition has lone it's work thoroly, presenting in it's exhibit evidences of the highest skill md illustrating the progress of the human family in the western hemis- Dhere. This portion of the earth has no cause for humiliation for the part it has performed in the march of civiliza- ion. It has not accomplished every hing far from it. It has simply done ts best, and and without vanity or and, rect gnizing the mani old achievements of others, it invites the friendly rivalry of all the Powers in the peaceful pursuit of trade and co nmerce, md will cooperate with all in advanc- ng the highest and best intererests of The wisdom and energy of 'f all the nations are none to great for Ee worlds work. The success of art, science, industry and invention is an asset and common glory.
 After all, how near one to the other s every part of the world! Modern in- have brought into close rela ion widely seperated peoples and made them better acquainted. Geographic and political divisions will continue to exist, but distance have been affaced. Swift ships and fast trains are becoming They invade fields which a few years ago were impenetra- able. The worlds products are changed as never before, and with increasing facilities come increas- ing knowledge and trade. Prices are fixed with mathematical presision by supply and demand The worlds sell ing prices are regulated by market and crop reports. We travel greater dis Iances in shorter space of time and with more ease than was ever dreamed ,f by the fathers.
 Isolation is no longer possible or desirable. The same important news is read, tho in different languages, the same day in all Christendom The tele- graph keeps us advised of what is oc- ,urring every where, and the press fore shadows, with more or less accuracy. the plans and purposes of the nations. Market price of products and of secur- lties are hourly known in every com merciaf market, and the investment of The people extended beyond their own national boundries into the remotest parts of the earth.
 Vast transactions are conducted and international exchanges are made by the tick of the ca'le. Every event of