The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-02
THE CORN PALACE OPENS
An Immense Crowd Packed the Great
Auditorium for First Concert
of the Week.

season the affair started off with an
immense crowd of people. Early in
the morning the streets were lined
with strangers from one end to the
other who had come in on the excur-
sion trains. All the trains we're
crowded to the handrails-all eager
to hear Mr.. Bryan and to attend the
corn palace.
AT the conclusion of Mr.. Bryan's
address,, the crowd wendell it's way
to the palace building, which was i'm
mediately filled with an eager throng
to again drink in the melodies of
music as produced by Thaviu's band
and to see the beautiful exhibits of
agriculture as shown by fourteen
counties.
The opening exercises we're brief,
and were begun with the invocation
by DR.. Samuel kerfoot, president of
Dakota Wesleyan University, whose
prayer was a %fervent one. Honorable
A. r. Hitchcock, the mayor of the
city, delivered the address of well
come, and spoke as follows:
1t was written in the Book:-"And
God said, Behold, 1 have given you
every herb bearing seed, which is up
on the face of all the earth, and eve
ry tree, in the which is the fruit of
a tree yielding seed; to you it shall
be for meat"
"And God saw everything that he
had made and, behold, it was very
good"
Through the years which mark the
history of men, wherever the richness
of soil has been %quickened by the
moisture of heaven and the radiant
sunshine, the toll of muscle and di-
rection of brain have brought forth
treasures to sustain, enrich and make
glad the race.
AS men have increased in numbers
through the centuries, as valley and
forest in all parts of the world, one
after another, by the tide of progress,
have been taken from primitive con-
ditions, the very existence of humans
ty depends primarily upon the harv-
ests resulting from human toll and
natures seasonS
Wherever the rewards of endeavor
are richest, at that place gather men
and women to struggle for more
abundance where success follows
opportunity, ide of achievement
and desire to share with fellows.
prompt such workers to bring their
choicest of field and orchard,-the
trumpet is sounded and a welcome
sung for all to come.
So here in this wonderfully fertile
new state of the Northwest, lying on
either side of the great Missouri Riv-
er, this splendid body of energetic
men and women has gathered to take
part in a celebration of one of the
most bountiful harvests of all time.
For the tenth year the City of
! Mitchell, assisted most generously by
the people of the state and the talent
of the Nation, presents this palace of
beauty and music, hat all who love
their commonwealth, may be deeply
stirred with self-pride and to which
the stranger without our gates can
come, look and be filled with envy.
Go where you may, no finer touch
of that which is pleasing to the eye
and acceptable to the higher sense of
beauty, can be found than in and
about this palace. No painter upon
canvass, however gifted, can mix the
colors to be compared with the tints
OF natures growth. The glory of
the sunrise and sunset as reflected in
floating clouds and the sparkle of the
dew drop, the rare delights. of the
moonbeam as caught in the clear at
mosphere of a South Dakota night,
are reproduced in the varied shades
of color fixed upon the ripened corn,
grain and fruit by the mysterious
brush of nature.
For the tenth year, there has been
enlisted the finest musical entertain
ment the nation can afford. Kings
and Queens of Europe, the followers
of fashion among the over-wealthy
hear nothing more charming.
And then-this palace will have
been the opportunity of giving citi-
zens of tie state the rare treat of
listening to the eloquence of the
apostles of good government repre-
sentative great men of great parties.
This will have been the only chance
of a lifetime for many a girl and
boy, many a woman and man to haye
seen and heard the future president
of the United States, William. /. !.
Even if you travel hundreds OF
miles, even if you walk the streets
at night, even If you go hungry and
thirsty, remember as a compensa.
ton that this palace has brought tc