The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-04-30

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com parison of the leaders OF thought
| had Fin personal conference are all
| these steps Of humanzprogress marked,
Ana while the buildings and machines
and the congresses and the beauty
and glamour and the pomp CT such
celebration and exposition as this
shall pass into memory and every ma
terial evidence disappear in measure
| .nent that they make of progress,
noted as il is in the history, OF the
world become a beneE: 10 mankind.
the value Of which cannot be .exasger~
ated.
1t reduces tie size OF our "'C-li n
that it brings a. nations i1to small
locality fo. g tiCe, ana it Increases
enormously the efficiency CT those ca
gagged IL carrying on The worlds pc
rresS. ~ enabling each &c gather Tie
| benefit Of TIE others york, and 1t
produces il Mans conquest OF the
inert material which is his TO deal
with !if I may use the word coined
from college sports that worlds tea :.
worI; in the struggle with adverse CO..
ditions which has much to CO WITH Tie
wonderful strides that are being ma dc
in the battle of mind over matter.
Speaking today on behalf OF tl@
President OF the United States, I
cannot but recall the admirable AMI
discri: ninatinS address which he de
livered here a year ago upon the his
torcal and political significance OF
that great purchase OF territory which
or.
forcibly he pointed out the tremea
Gous capacity for expansion and alb
sorptiOn of peoples, orr peculiar fed
| eral system. with its provision for the
birth OF new states, afforded; how
new il was when this government be
gan and yet how quietly successful
had been It's operations until now it
seems 80 natural as 10 involve no SUR
prise or admiration at all.
q am sure | mag beu pardOEed il
[ invoke attention to the fact that we
have a this, the centenary Of the
purchase Of Louisiana, entered upon
another and different kind Of expAn
sion. which involves the solution Of
other and different problems from
those presented in the Louisiana P1r-
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