The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-11
STATE BUILDINGS
FEW CITIZENS CAN WISH AL
THE STATES BUT ALL III
STATES ARE A, THE FAiR.

The indissoluble union OF indie
structIble States is we'll Illustrated
in the government and State StEuc-
lures at the Fair Emotions OF patri-
otto pride are aroused by them i'll eH-
ery one wro rejoices in American cit
ize,ship iiow glad the people OF the
United States should be to realize that
all the States can fraternaly assemble,
on terms OF perfect equality, Oh an
occasion like this. Whatever may
have been the nature OF the utter
ences back of the civil war-and some
of them were older than the genera
ton involved in the cont!lct--the
whole people can see now that the
greatness Of the nation, and th,: fVl-
fillment of it's highest destiny, depend
upon the perpetuity Of the Union All
the colonies founded the Union, ana
all the States are knit together to
Shield it in peril and advance it in
the scale OF civilization. The end Oh
the civil war was the triumph OF the
Union idea and not OF any factlon OF
the people ever another faction, Peace
wiped out the lines of division. 1t
made possible all that has followed,
constituting the Union OF to-t!ay, the
nation that, through fore" Of duty has
extended its boundaries far beyond
the old limits, and, in the interests OF
the worlds commerce as much as its
own. is constructing an interoceanlc
highway that only a great cos;rtry
could pay for or defend.
Among the States and thei: inha5-
itants there are minor points OF CON
trast yet among citizens each is equal
to every other, and each has thu same
share in all that constitutes th4 &ener-
al government or the State. An Amer
lean greets another American TO
matter from what part OF the conn
try, with an overruling sense o; tI"'c
fellowship. Customs may ha"t local
peculiaritics: points of view as to buSi-
ness or matters Of social inter s. may
vary a little. but American citivensiiip
is the basis of a broad resemblance,
the tie of brotherhood that will last
through the centuries and solve prob
lens of vast Importance to humanity
For it must be remembered that re-
publican government as laaciHS
force among nations must stand or
fall with it's results in the United
States. The experiment, if IL must
still be regarded in that light. has de-
veloped into something so vast. SO
dominant in many ways, that its fail
urc would endure forever as dis
couracing record and precedent.
Few citizens are able to say that
they have visited all the forty-hFe
to the Fair, and the scene is !nsplf-
ing. The territories also are repre-
sented. States of the future peop!ed
from the older comm onwealths, ana
confident that they, in turn, Will III
the larger sphere with honor to them
selves and devotion to the Union
Long is the roll of States carved from
the Louisiana purchase. Their history
is an assurance that the country may
continue to grow, to be filed up by
the original stock and the same
sources from which it was drawn
There is no North. no South, no East
no West among the State exhibits:
They represent union, patriot ismt a M
Iity,S generous, mutually helpful II II
VARY. some states contain more M
habitants or square mil es Z, q n 9TH eI's.
but ali are alike iil bis heart e tlr
and love of count G1obe-B smocraf,
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