The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-05

Toilette and Mayor David s. Rose voic-
ed the Official welcomes, and the United
States societies rendered patriotic selec-
tions. There was also a splendid illum-
ination and a night run of the Milwau-
kee fire department. Later there was a
banquet, at which the prince met the
leading men of the city and state
The thousands of Germans living in
Milwaukee joined heartily in the well
come of the young prince to whose
house they once owed allegiance, and
veterans of the German wars gathered
from throughout the state to assist in
the reception.
The special train bearing the prince
and his party ran up from Chicago over
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail
road and there was an enormous crowd
at the depot. There was a cheer when
the prince appeared and another louder
than the first when he reached his car
riage outside the depot grounds Mayor
Rose and Admiral Evans entered his
carriage and, thanked by police and
guarded by troopers of the First Wis
consin cavalry, the drive through the
city began.
Ambassador Won Holleben and the
assistant secretary of state, Mr.. HILL
rode in the second carriage with Cap
tain Frederick Pabst chairman of the
reception committee. Just outside of
the depot 1000 veterans of the German
wars were drawn up. They had come
here from Green Bay, Stevens Point.
Port Washington, Appleton, Plymouth,
Fond du Lac, Racine and other distant
points in the state, and they gave the
prince volley of cheers as he passed
them. The business streets were block
AIDED with people and the police had to
fight to keep a driveway clear.
FIRST OVER A NEW BRIDGE.
Prince Henry was given the privilege
of riding in the first carriage to roll
across the new Grand Wisconsin
street bridge, and as this point was
reached Battery A, stationed on the lake
front, fired a salute of twenty-one guns.
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through the streets was very enthusiaS-
tic and there was cheering when he en-
tered the Exposition building for the
public reception. AS he appeared on
the stage, escorted by his staff and the
reception committee, the chorus of 900
voices sang Der DeutSch Lied There
were 10000 persons packed in the Ex-
position building and it was long before
they were sufficiently quieted for Chair
man John Johnson to briefly introduce
Mayor Rose. The mayor, in formally
welcoming the prince, said:
May it please your royal highness:
Here, in our land, where individual
states, each enjoying sovereign powers,
are united in one beautiful sisterhood,
some by distance widely separated from
others, yet all welded into indissoluble
union by common interests and a COM
mon patriotism, you have found hap
py, prosperous, enlightened and peace
loving people. Each citizen is the ruler
of his own destiny, the king of his own
fortune and the lord of his own manor.
BY our Magma Charta each is guaran-
teed the rights of conscience; and con-
science and those laws in the enactment
of which his voice has been heard are
the only soyereigns that rule his civil
conduct
Yet. as we assert the right to govern
ourselves by republican forms, we concede
the right of others to subject their allie
glance to regal dominion and make no
criticism of the choice. In every depart
nent of our country,s growth you will find
the imprint of the German character. In
science. literature and art, in agriculture.
commerce and manufacture in the profess
sions and in every pursuit that has
tributed to our. advancement the citizen of
German birth has played his part and
played it we'll Conservative, yet enterpris-
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