The copper era., 1910-10-28
Panama Exposition.
fRv Ebert Hubhard )


 The year Nineteen Hundred Fifteen is the centennial of the downfall of Napoleon Bona parte. Napoleon was a Dictator-a benefcent tyrant And, by the way, all tyrants have ever regarded their rule as bene- icent.
 The year Nineteen Hundred Eff teen is to mark the Rule of the Peo- pie. It is to commemorate the com pletion of the greatest engineering venture ever attempted work of the People, by the People, for the People.
 The building of the Chinese wall is the only engineering featin history that actually rivals it. The French are supposed to lead the world as civil engineers. They made their plans for a Panama Canal; they spent untold treasure and twenty years time and then abandoned the at tempt as impossible.
 The Panama Canal will be the actual realization of the short pass age to India; sought by sailors and navigators for centuries. Columbus, Balboa, Magellan, Cortez, Sir Francis Drake, Henry Hudson, lived and died in ignorance of the fact that when the Northwest Passage was realized it would have been made by the hands of man.
 To commemorate this mighty achievement is worthy of our high est, noblest aud most dignlfied efforts
 No Midway, Madri Gras Carnival, with its dancing clowns, prancing uymphs and showers of confetti, will suffice.
 It is America's opportunity to usher in the New Era-the Epoch of Brotherhood and Universal Intelli- gence.
 It means a blossoming of intellect and love that will give America a new birth of prosperity, heretofore unequaled.
 Afchimedas said: "Give me a place upon which to stand, and I'll move the world"
 San Francisco has lever and she has place upon which to stand She has moved the world to admira. tion for her recovery from calamity: and she will now, with the help of the world, give the world the great est object lesson in science, eco monies, art and industrial better ment that 1t has ever seen.
 She has the money, the location, the climate, the water, the sunshine the men and women-the willing brain, the generous heart and the strong and helpful hands.
 San Francisco now asks Congress for official permission to invite the world to come to her House Party in Nineteen Hundred Fifteen.
 San Francisco does not ask Uncle Sam for either an appropriation or a loan.
 All she asks for is his smile and nod of recognition.
 San Francisco has now pledged aud at her command SI7, 7,OOO,00 to finance the Panama Worlds Exposition.
 This is larger sum than any Worlds Fair has ever had.
 Governor Sanders, of Louisiana, before congressional committee, well said: "The Panama Canal is not a Louisiana project, nor a Cali fornia if lir; it is the work of the whole United States"
 Good words and truel And the Worlds Fai. that commemorates this superb event must be of a chara cter and kind approaching the greatness and grandeur of the land in which we live.
 People who do not known the Rock y Mountain country do not know Amer tea. I want the Elst to be siphoned through the West as a matter of education. san Francisco can reveal America at her best, and this is just what must be done. We must edu- cate our boys and girls 10 the great and splendid resources that are here, practically untapped.
 The arguments of lease of access" and the "center of population" are faliacious
 No exposition ever held in America was So successful as the one al Seattle.
 No exposition was such an abiect failure, financially and otherwise, as the one at Jamestown.