The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-14
AIIusion Made to the Coming Confer
ence of American Republics to he
Held in the City of Mexico.
FLAG DAY AT THE EXPOSITION
GENERAL MILES AND CAPT. HOBsON
TO DELIVER ADDRESSES.
Papers Read mt the Meeting of Edi-
tors-An Indianian on the Quail
ifcations for Success.

BUFFALO, N. Y, June 1S.-The presence
of men of national prominence and the
sports in the Stadium attracted thousands
to the Pan-American Exposition to-day.
Secretary of State John Hay was the guest
Of honor at dinner given this evening by
the board of directors of the exposition TO
the National Editorial Association. One
thousand covers were laid in the dining
room in Statler's Hotel. the banquet being
the largest in the history of the city. Sec
retary Hay introduced by Director
General Buchanan, who presided. Mr.. Hay
spoke in part as follows:
Last night, as 1 looked from my win
dow at this marvellous creation, lined in
f1re upon the evening sky, and to-day, as
L have walked through the courts and the
palaces of this Incompatible exhibition. the
words of the prophet have been constantly
IN my mind: Your old men shall dream
dreams; your young man shall see visions.
This ideal of the brotherhood of the nations
OF the Western world is not a growth of
yesterday. 1t was heralded when the coun-
try was young by the clarion voice of
Henry Clay; IL was cherished by Seward
and Evarts. by Douglass and by Blaine.
Twelve years ago We held the first reunion
OF the American republics. Much was said
and done destined to be memorable in our
history, opening and blazing the way along
the path of peace and fraternal relations.
We have made steady progress; have
grown cay by day better understand
Ing, until now we are looking TO our COM
ing conference in the City of Mexico, and
which we have the right TO hope that. with
larger experiences and profounder study of
the great problems before us, results all
the more important and beneficent will be
reached.
There have been statesmen and soldiers
who have cherished the fancy in past years
or vast American army, recruited from
every country between the arctic and art
arctic seas, which should bind us tog her
In one immense military power that mig.It
overawe the older civilizations But this
conception belongs to the past, to an order
OF things that has gone, l hope, forever.
How far more inspiring is the thought of
the results 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,
of labor and intelligence in every country
OF this new world, all working with one
mind and one will not to attain unhap-
py pre-eminence in the art of destruction
but to advance in liberal emulation in the
arts which tend to make men happier and
better to make this long-harassed and tor
mented earth brighter and more blessed
abode for men of good will tApplause.l
Ali 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 and air and sea are
gathered here, to warn, to delight to en-
courage and reward the ever-strivng, the
force which enables men to conquer and
tame the powers of nature; wealth, not
ment, as Tennyson sang. to rest in mold
ed heaps. but smile with the free light to
melt and fatten 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 over ALL the sub
lime. the well-nigh divine conception of
brotherhood of mutually helpful nations,
fit harbinger and forerunner of a brother
hood of man.
God forbid that there should be in all
this the slightest hint of vainglory, still
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the contrary, we cannot but think that
this challenge we send out all peoples,
convoking them also to join in this broth
erly 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 un-
der the wide heavens. Every great achieve
municates TO the universal human spirit
salutary shock which. in ever widening
circles, spreads regions the most remote
and obscure, 10 break at last in lingering
rippes on the ultimate shores of space and
time: time, t out OF b 5000 go6d source evil eannot
born. The benign influences that shall
emanate from this great festival of peace
shall not be bounded by oceans, nor by
continents. lGreat applause.l
Other speakers were Governor A B.
White, of West Virginia; Walter Williams
of Mississippi; Herbert p Bissell. of Buff
I.andon, of North Carolina; p H. Baum
gartner Of California, and Joe Mitchell
Cnappelle or Boston.
To-morrow-Flag day-will be celebrated
with ceremonies in the Temple of Music
Among the prominent men who will be
present during the exercises are Secretary
OF State John Hay, Lieutenant General
Miles. Capt. Richmond L. Hobson and SEN
ator Platt Admiral Dewey expected
but word was received to-day that he will
be unable 10 visit the exposition until later
In the month General Miles and Captain
Hobson will deliver addresses.
NJ. De AsperitZ, Mexican ambassador and
Jose Godoy arrived here to-day from Wash
ington and took apartments at the Lenox.
The Mexican building will be dedicated to-
morrow