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 of it's execution, and is an event which awakens interest not only in the Do- minion of Canada, but in the United States also. From this point as base intrepid explorers blazed the pathway of civilization through traekless forests and explored lakes and rivers in terri
 tory which is now within the jurisdic
 tion of the United States. Names as soeiated with the early history of Que bee are landmarks in our geography and are indelbly impressed upon our eivili. zatiOn.
 Three hundred years is but a brief period in the history of England or France, but it is all the history of Que bee and all of Anglo-Saxon America. Here has been written an interesting story. Here have been witnessed the victories and defeats of war and the blessed tr;umpns of peace. The battle ships of three great nations rest yon- der upon the bosom of the St. Law renee. The representatives of those powers assembled here are recalling past differences hut only to emphasize the present prevalence of spirit of genuine friendship between them.
 It is with unusual pleasure l bring you greetings from the president and the people of the United States who re- ioice with you in the progress you have made Tn the manifold ways which make for the strength and honor of a great people We are not indifferent to your welfare nor are you indifferent to ours. The blood of common ancestry is in our veins. We have much in common. We glory in many of the same tradi- tiOns and We have the same jurispru- denee. Our standing of civilization are alike. Here, side by side, owing ale glance to different sovereignties. we arc, in God Providence. to work out our destiny We wish you that content ment which comes from the cultivation of the arts of peaceful industry under those political institutions which are the guaranty of justice and liberty among men.
 The United States and Canada have but fairly entered upon the careers. Each has vast areas either sparsely set tied or unoeeupied where many will make their homes in the future. Many millions will be added to our popula- ton and to yours. We have each made much advance in the scale of civiliza- ton and are gratified with the progress We have made. Back of us lies brief hut honorable history and before us stretch illimitable opportunities. We confidently believe that we are each destined to play a large and worthy part in the progress of the human race upon the western continent. We have no rivalries except in the ways of peace. We neither covet the other s territory We eovet only each other 's neighboTly esteem. We rest upon common from tier more than five thousand miles in length. It is crossed and reerossed by instrumentalities of commerce which tend to strengthen our neighborly ties. There are no Notifications upon our frontier and no battleships upon the waters which divide us and we believe and fervently hope that there will never be need of any defensive preparation between us.
 As we behold this majestic eelebra tion in which the representatives, of diff ferent nations participate and witness the manifestations of a genuine frater nal spirit among them, we are impressed with the thought that there is no na- tional reasons why nations should re- sort to war. May We not, on this the ater of past conflicts, surrounded now by the oppressive monuments of peace. venture to hope that the widespread movement which seeks to insure the maintenance of peace among the na tions of the world without invoking the sword, ma ygrow in strength and at no distant day become incorporated as a part of the fixed policy of nations. To advocate measures to the mainten ance of international tranquility, to endeavor to substitute reason or force, is not evidence of any decay in the courage of manhood of nations but it is the proclamation of the great truth that modern civilization is not fail ure. It is a failure if it does not sub stitute for force the serene and all l powerful chamber of reason and deliber- ation. There is such a thing as right. | eousness among nations. Let them take l their differences into international courts of justice and there let reason and righteousness prevail. Let nations by every honorable means which en frightened statesmanship may suggest