The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-10
TAFT OPENS BIG FAIR
WITH alaska GOLD KEY
President Sends Sparks Across
Continent Starting Pacific
Exposition.
JAMES ]. HILL WARNS NATION
Magnate Sees Danger and Pleads for
Law Enforcement Instead of
Law Making.


at BIS o'clock Tuesday afternoon,
pressed telegraphy key of Alaska
gold and sent a spark across the con-
,inent that put in motion the wheels
Of the Alaska-Y ukon-Pacific EXPOSE
lion 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-
IAN and Japanese fleets, set all the
steamers in the harbor and all the To-
comotiyes in the railroad yards whis-
Ting and brought forth universal re-
ioicing 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 at $3.50 o'clock. At $3.50 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 II. 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
olic Bishop Onward ]. O'Day, brief ad-
dress by Director General /. A. Ma
deau and President j. F. Chilberg, the
long address by James j. Hill, chair
man of the Great Northern board, and
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 term of years of law en-
forcement for law-making"
Taft Sends Message.
The ceremony of pressing the gold
key in the east room of the White
House in Washington by which Presi.
dent Taft to-day formally opened the
Alaska Yukon-Pacific Exposition was
simple. There was a delay of fifteen
minutes at Seattle in completing the
arrangements, and it was 3:15 D. 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. ]. E. Chilberg
President Alaska-Yukon-Pacifc Exposi
ton, Seattle, Wash.
Il congratulate you and your asso
ciates on this suspicious opening oil
the Alaska Yukon-Pacific Exposition
and / 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 ap
peal not only to the people of the
West but to the people of the country
at large. I trust it will fully meet the
expectations Of those to whose untir
/ ing energies it owes it's birth and thai
1t will prove a source of instruction
and education to its thousands of visi
tors. WILLIAM II. TAFT
President Taft and Senator Pile:
then made brief addresses.