The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-02

and andeur of its full completion .
he sa d, 1.-The spectacle here presented
surpasses anything of the kind the
| human eye has ever looked upon. IL
every part of the hab.table globe to
eommemo. ate that matchless and pat
riotic achievement wrought a century
ago by Thomas Jefferson"
For the domestic exhibitors Edward
II. Hartman. president of the New
York commission, spoke
The speaker for the foreign exhibit
ors was Commissioner General Michael
La Grave of F.ance.
The chorus of America" was then
sung. and the Hon. William r. Taft.
secretary of war. acting as the repre-
sentative of the president of the Unit
ed States. dalive ed the last address
OF the day. He spoke in part as fol-
lows:
when one sees the expense and
| effort and energy necessary 10 make
the exposition the opening of which
we celebrate today. ii is natural to
doubt whether the good is commensur-
ate with the cost, In less than a year
this city OF magnificent structures viii
have disappeared. this collection OF
| everything from everywhere viii have
been dissipated, and nothing win re-
main but the site where it was. but
the memory of it's beauty and gran
a he
one. is only evidence that we do not
| believe as we should the meaning of
this exposition. 1t is a milestone in
the progress of the world. Each ma
tion is striving to show how. since
the last worlds exposition, II has ham
died and added to the talent confided
10 its care. This is the union of ma
tions in a progress toward higher ma
terial and spiritual existence. II is the
measuring rod Of that for which myr-
lads OF b~ains have been striving-an
increase In the control which mind and
muscle have over the inanimate re-
sources that nature furnishes.
Speaking today on behalf of the
president of the United States. | can
not but recall the admirable and dis
eliminating address which he delv-
cred here a year ago upon the his
to ical and political significance Of
that great purchase of tie ritory which
this exposition commentaries: how
forcibly he pointed out the tremen-
dous capacity for expansion and alb
sorption of peoples our peculiar fed
eral system, with its provision for the
birth of new states. afforded: how new
it was when this government began
and yet how quietly successful has
been it's operation, until now ii seems
so natural as to involve no su prise
or admiration at all. / am sure I may
he pardoned If ! invoke attention to
tenary of the purchase OF Louisiana.
entered upon another and a different
kind of expansion which involves the
solution of other and different prob
lens from those presented in the Lou
isiana purchase. They have been
forced upon us without our seeking.
and they must be solved with the same
high sense of duty. the came fearless
ness and courage with which our an
cestors met the ve~y startling prob
lens that We're presented by the addi-
tion of this wide expanse of territory
Of Louisiana. That they may not and
probably will not be solved by con-
ferring statehood upon the new terri
tory is probable.
"Augurs for i'll and ruin to follow
from the experience and the solution OF
the problem are not wanting. but they
never have been wanting in the his
tory of this country, and they have
never been allowed to control the fear
less graphing of new problems by
Americans. We have probably reached
period in the great wealth and power
which we have achieved as q nation.
| In which we fird ourselves buvdened
with the necessity of aiding another
people to stand upon its feet and take
a short cut to the freedom and the
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