Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-06-08
Taft OPENS BIS FAIR
WITH ALASKA GOLDKEY
President Sends Sparks Across
Continent Starting Pacific
Exposition.
JAMES J. HILL WARNS NATION
Magnate Sees Danger and Pleads for
Law Enforcement Instead Of
Law Making.


at S;15 O'Clock Tuesday afternoon,
pressed a telegraphy key of Alaska
gold and sent a spark across the con-
tinent that put in motion the wheels
of the Observation-Disclosures EXPOSE
ton in Seattle, loosed the waters of
Its fountains, unfurled its banners,
started its bands playing. released
showers of daylight fireworks, called
upon the saluting guns of the Ameri-
can and Japanese fleets, set all the
steamers in the harbor and all the To-
comotives in the railroad yards whis-
Ting and brought forth universal re-
joicing from all Seattle
Big Fair Is Complete.
The exercises at the worlds fair
grounds preceding the Presidents sig
nal were carried out with military pre-
cision. The exposition gates were
opened az $3.50 o'clock. At $50 troops
from the United States army and navy,
from the japanese cruisers Aso and
Soya and the State militia paraded
through the grounds, under the COM
mand of Colonel T. c. Woodbury., U.
S. A, and the column was reviewed
from stand at the head of the court
of honor by exposition officials, visit
ing governors and Admirals H. Ijichi
and Uriel Sebree.
The ceremonial exercises were held
in vast natural amphitheater sloping
to Lake Washington. The program
consisted of music, invocation by Cath
Ollie Bishop Onward j. 0'Day, brief adj
dress by Director General l. A Ma
deau and President j. F. Chilberg, the
long address by James ]. Hill, chair
man of the Great Northern board, and
4 benediction by Episcopal Bishop
Frederick w Keator.
Mr.. Hill said: There are four great
words that should be written upon the
four corner stones of every public
building in this land, with the sacred
ness of a religious rite. These watch
words of the republic are equality, sim
plicity, economy and justice They are
interviewer with every fiber of the ma
tional fabric. To forget or deny them
will lead to every misfortune and ev-
cry possibility of destruction that rises
now threateningly in the path of our
country's greatness.
Frequent use of the phrase, our
complex civilization creates a vague
impression that simplicity has been
banished necessarily from the modern
world by kind of natural evolution.
Whereas it remains now, as always,
the normal rule of wholesome nation
al life
I'VE have complicated our lawmak-
ing until, despite the high standards,
the unimpaired traditions and the con-
tinual labors of the courts, the admin
istration of justice is difficult and
sometimes uncertain. The greatest
service to the nation, to every State
and city to-day, would be the substitu-
ton for a term of years of law en-
forcement for law-making"
Taft Sends Message.
The ceremony of pressing the gold
House in Washington by which Presi
dent Taft to-day formally opened the
AIaska-Y ukon-Pacific Exposition was
simple There was a delay of fifteen
minutes at Seattle in completing the
arrangements, and it was 3:15 p. m.
washington time) when President
Taft touched the golden telegraph in
strument. Practically the entire diplo-
matte corps was present. The message
which followed quickly after the cur
rent that put everything in motion
was as follows:
The White House, Washington,
June /, 1909-Mr. J. E. Chilberg,
President Alaska-Yukon-Paeific EXPOSE
ton, Seattle, Wash
Il congratulate you and your asso-
ciates on this suspicious opening of
the Alaska Yukon-Pacific Exposition,
and l congratulate the people of the
great Northwest on the courage and
enterprise they have shown in bring
ing it forth The exposition, designed
as it is to exploit the natural resources
and marvellous wealth of Alaska and
the development of trade and COM
merce on the Pacific slope, should APP
peal not only to the people of the
West but 20 the people of the country
at large. l trust it will fully meet the
expectations af those to whose untir-
ing energies it owes its birth and that
il will prove a source Of instruction
and education to it's thousands of visi-
tors. WILLIAM II. TAFT"
President Taft and Senator Piles
then made brief addresses.
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