The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-24

Thy REQUEST of several citizens
X who wish to preserve copies, the
Advertiser publishes the full text
as follows, of President McKinley's
great speech at Buffalo:
President Milburn, Director General Blu
chanan, Commissioners, Ladies and
Gentlemen:
l am glad to be again in the city OF
Buffalo, and exchange greetings with
her people, to whose generous hospital
ity l am not a stranger, and with whose
good will have been repeatedly and sig
nally honored. Today 1 have additional
satisfaction in meeting and giving wei
come to the foreign representatives as
se1nbled here, whose presence and parti-
cipation in this exposition have contrib
uted in SO marked a degree to it's inter-
est and success. To the Commissioners
of the Dominion of Canada and the Brit
ish Colonies, the French Colonies, the
Republics of Mexico, and of Central and
South America, and the Commissioners
of Cuba and Porto Rico, who share with
US in this undertaking, we give the hand
of fellowship, and felicitate with them
upon the triumphs of art, science, edu-
cation, and manufacture which the old
has bequeathed to the new century.
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 information to
the student Every exposition, great or
small, has helped to some onward step.
Comparison of ideas is always education
al; and as such instructs the brain and
hand of man. Friendly rivalry follows,
which is the spur to industrial improve
ment, the inspiration to useful invention
and to high endeavor in all departments
of human activity. 1t exacts a 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 men of business to devise,
invent, improve, and economize in the
cost of production. Business life wheth-
er among ourselves or with other peoples,
Is ever sharp struggle for success. It
Will be none the less so in the future.
Without competition we would be cling
ing to the clumsy and antiquated proc
esses of farming and manufacture and
the methods of business of long ago, and
the twentieth would be no further ad-
vanced than the eighteenth century But
though commercial competitors we are,
commercial enemies we must not be-
PRAISES EXPOSITION.
The Pan-American exposition has done
its work thoroughly, presenting in it's
exhibits evidences of the highest skill
and illustrating the progress of the hui
man family in the Western Hemisphere.
This portion of the earth has no cause
for humiliation for the part it has per-
formed in the march of civilization. 1t
has not accomplished everything; far
from it. 1t has simply done its best, and
without vanity or boastfulness and rec
ognizing the manifold achievements OF
others, it invites the friendly rivalry OF
all the powers in the peaceful pursuits OF
trade and commerce and will cooperate
with all in advancing the highest and
best interests of humanity The wisdom
and energy of all the nations are none
too great for the worlds work. The sue
cess of art, science, industry and inven-
ton is an international asset, and a com
mon glory.
After all how near one to the other
is every part of the world. Modern III
vent.ons have brought into close relations
widely separated peoples and made then
better acquainted. Geographic and polit
ical divisions will continue to exist, but
distances have been effaced. Swift ships
and fast trains are becoming cosmopoli-
tan. They invade fields which few
years ago were impenetrable. The worlds
products are exchanged as never before
and with increasing transportation facil-
tiles come increasing knowledge and larg
er trade. Prices are fixed with mathemat-
ical precision by supply and demand. The
worlds selling prices are regulated by
market and crop reports. We trave
greater distances in a shorter space 81
time and with more ease, than was ever
dreamed of by the fathers. Isolation Is
no longer possible or desirable. The
same important news is read, though in
different languages, the same day in al
Christendom. The telegraph keeps us
advised of what is occurring everywhere
and the press foreshadows, with more Oh
less accuracy, the plans and purposes OF
the nations. Market prices of product:
and securities are hourly known in every
market, and the investments
of people extend beyond their own
national boundaries into the remotes'
parts of the earth. Vast transactions are
conducted and international exchanges
are made by the tick of the cable. Every
event of interest is Immediately bulletin
ed. The quick gathering and transmits
sion 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 spe-
cial messenger of the government, with
every facility known at the time for rap
i'd travel, 10 days to go from the City
of Washington to New Orleans with
message to General Jackson that the
war with England had ceased and that
treaty of peace had been signed How
different nowi
WONDERFUL PROGRESS.