Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-03

the good is commensurate
with the cost. In less than a year this
city Of magnificent structures will have
this collection of every
thing from everywhere will have been
dissipated and nothing will remain
but the site where it was, and the
of its beauty and grandeur.
The doubt, though natural one, is
only evidence that we do not feel as
we should, the meaning Of this exposi-
ton. 1t is great milestone In the
united progress of the world. Each
nation is here striving to show how,
since the last great worlds exposition,
it has handled and added to the talent
confided to it's care. This is the union
err material and spiritual existence. 1t
is the measuring rod of that for which
myriads of hands and nyriads OF
brains have been striving-an increase
in the control which mind and muscle
have over the inanimate resources that
nature furnishes. From each of the
great eXpostions of the world can be
dated the worlds familiarity with some
marvellous invention, so quickly adopt
ed in our life, that the change that 1t
effected has almost passed from
memory. Take for instance the tele-
phone at the exposition of 1875 at Phil
adelphia. Those of us whose memories
go back far beyond that date can
hardly realize, that there, for the frst
time, were shown the experiments
which resulted in the Transmission OF
the human voice hundreds of miles ana
which has revolutionized thereby the
methods of life and business in every
community.
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Not alone in the mechani-
cal sciences, but in the fine arts, in
education, in philosophy, in religion.
by comparison of the leaders OF
thought had in personal conference,
are all these steps of modern progress
marked. And while the buildings and
the machines and the congresses and
the beauty and the glamor and the
pomp of such a celebration and exposl-
ton as this shall pass into memory,
and every material evidence disappear
the measurement that they make OF
progress, noted as it Is in the history
of the world, become benefit to man
kind, the value of which cannot be ex-
aggerated. 1t reduces the size of our
world in that it brings all nations into
one small locality for a time, but 1t IN
creases enormously the efficiency or
those engaged in carrying on the
worlds progress. by enabling each TO
gather the benefit of the others work.
Speaks for the President.
Speaking today on behalf Of the
President of the United States, l can
not but recall the admirable and dis
eliminating address which he delivered
here a year ago upon the historical and
political significance of that great pur-
chase Of territory which this exposition
commentaries; how forcibly he point
ed out the tremendous capacity for eX-
pansion and absorption of peoples, our
peculiar federal system, with it's pro-
vision for the birth of new states az
forded; how new it was when this
government began and yet how quiet
" successful had been its operation
until now it seems SO natural as to in
volve no surprise or admiration at all.
The Philippines.
am sure 1 may be pardoned if I in
woke attention to the fact that we have
at this, the centenary of the purchase
of Louisiana entered upon another and
different kind of expansion, which in
wolves the solution of other and differ
ent problems from those presented in
the Louisiana Purchase. They have
been forced upon us without our seek
| ing. and they must be solved with the
same high sense Of duty, the same
fearlessness and courage with which
our ancestors met the very startling
problems that We're presented by the
addition of this wide expanse of terri
tory of Louisiana. That they may not
and probably will not be solved by
comforting statehood upon the new
territory is probable. Augurs of 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 history of this country
and they never have been allowed tc
control the fearless graphing of new
problems by Americans. We have
probably reached period in the great
wealth and power which we have
| achieved as a nation, in which we fine
ourselves burdened with the necessity
of aiding another people to stand upor
| it's feet and take a short cut to the
freedom and the civil liberty which we
and our ancestors have hammered out
Compliments ST. Louis. .
And now, gentlemen, in closing the
| few remarks l have to make, should
| be unjust did not testify to the skill
and tact and limitless energy of thu
men of the city of st. Louis, with
President Francis at their head, tt
whom we owe this blazing picture O
the worlds progress down to 1904 NJ
one who is not more or less familiar
with the details of a search through
the world for those things which shall
show it's present conditions; no on,
who does not know the difficulties
which are inherent in the organization
and completion of such an enterpris,
as this, can pay proper tribute o
praise to those who have erected thi
grand monument to the progress o
man.
AGED MINER KILLED