The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1901-09-11
GREETED BY THOUSANDS.
President Mckinley Draws Big
Crowds to the Pan-American
Exposition.
HIS SPEECH is HEARTILY RECEIVED.
Talks of American Prosperity and
Our Relations to South American
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Canal Must Be
BuiIt-Visits Buildings and Sees
illumination at Night.

BuiIt-ViSits Buildings anu sees
Illumination Mt Night.
Buffalo, N. Y, Sept. 6.-Presidents
day at the Pan-American exposition
Yesterday was attended with every
circumstance in keeping with its high
import. President Mckinley, with
Mrs. Mckinley by his side and sur
rounded by eminent persons OF high
official rank in the service of this and
foreign countries, faced vast throng
of people in the Esplanade at noon
and delivered an address that
brought forth the thunderous aP-
plause Of the multitude.
The Address.
The president spoke in part as fol-
lows: -
"Expositions are the time-keepers OF
nrogress. They record the worlds advance
ment. They stimulate the energy, enter
nrise and intellect Of the people, and quick
en- human genius. They go into the nome.
they broaden and brighten the daily lie
of the people They open mighty store
houses of information to the student.
Every exposition, great or small mas
helped to some onward step. comparison
of ideas is always educatioral; and as
such fnstructs the brain and hand OF man.
Friendly rivalry follows, which is the spur
to industrial Improvement, the lnsplra-
ton to useful invention and to hlgh en-
deavor in all departments OF human acti'-
ity. rha
1.-The period of exclusiveness is past. Inc
expansion of our trade and commerce is
the pressing problem. Commercial wars
are Improbable. A policy of good VIII ana
friendly trade relations will prevent re-
mony with the spirit of the times; meas
ures of retaliation are not
Direct Commercial Lines.
cone of the needs of the times is direct
commercial lines from our vast fields OF
production to the fields of consumption
that we have but barely touched: Next IN
advantage to having the thing to sell IS to
have the convenience to carry 1t to the puy-
err We must encourage our merchaflt md
rine We must have more ships. Ihey
must be under the American flag, built ana
manned and owned by Americans Inese
will not only be profitable in commercial
sense they will be messengers of peace ana
amity wherever they go. We must build
the isthmian canal, which will unite the
two oceans and give a straight line of wa
ter communication with the western coasts
of Central and South America and Mexico
The construction OF racine caple cannot
be longer postponed.
"In the furtherance of these objects of
national interest and concern, YOU are per-
forming an important part. This exposi-
ton would have touched the heart OF that
American statesman whose mind was ever
alert and thought ever constant for a
larger commerce and a truer fraternity OF
the republics of the new world. His broad
American spirit is felt and manifested here.
He needs no Identification to an assem-
blage of Americans anywhere, for the
name of Blaine is inseparably associated
with the Pan-American movement which
finds this practical and substantial express
sion and which we all hope will be firmly
advanced by the Pan-American congress-
that asse rnbles this autumn in the cap1tal
of Mexico. The good work will go on. II
cannot be stopped.
Concord. Not Conflict.
"Who can tell the new thoughts that
have been awakened, the ambitions ira
and the high achievements that will pc
wrought through this exposition? Genie
men, let us ever remember that our in hr-
est is in concord, not conflict, and thatour
real eminence rests in the victories of
peace, not those of war. We hope tha all
who are represented here may be moved to
higher and nobler effort for their owl and
the worlds good, and that out of this city
may come, not only greater commerce and
trade for us all, but. more essentia than
these, relations of mutual respect, conf
dence and friendship which will deeJen and
endure.
"Our earnest prayer is that CD will
graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness
and peace to all our neighbors md like
blessings to all the peoples and powers of
earth"
Visits Buildings.
Upon the conclusion of hi address
the president reviewed the troops at
the stadium and then preceded to
the Canadian building, whre he was
me, by the Canadian commissioners
and viewed the Canadian exhibits. He
next visited the Agricultural building
and the buildings of Honduras, Cuba,
Chilli, Mexico, Dominicas, Republic,
Porto Rico and Ecuade', where he
was received by the commissioners Of
the respective countrie.
Entertained nj Lunch.
At two o'clock the President was en-
tertained at luncheon5y,the New York
state commission inthe New York
state building. Their were 200 guests,
including the members Of the diplo-
matte corps, membrs of the cabinet,
lodges, officers and Their distinguished
men.
The remainder IF the afternoons
programme inclued visit and inspec-
ton of the government buildings and
exhibits, after which the president re
turned to the reidence of Mr.. Milburn
for dinner, tkelnvited guests return
Ing to their hoels. The president and
Mrs. Mckinley visited the grounds in
the evening t view the illumination
and fireworks
TIE Public Debt.