The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-25
VlCE-PRESIDENT
 IS SPEAKER AT
 FAIR DEDICATION
Represents President and Tells of Aims of U. S. in Build
 ing Canal.

San Francisco. March 25-Charac- terizing the Panama Pacific Exposi ton as the sscrysta1ization of the dreams and thoughts of genius and talent Vice President Marshall last night spoke at the fair lauding the state of California and the men who made the exposition possible, and in the name of the President of the United States dedicated the exposi- ton in glorif1cation of the completion of the Isthnian canal. He said in part
 q crave your sympathy and your charity while for a brief moment I stand here commissioned to take but not fill, the place of the President of. the United States. In justice to the day. Woodrow Wilson should be here The office and the man would each fittingly grace this occasion. But du- ty said to him that justice to all peo-. pie bade him stay in Washington. You hope for contiued peacei Do not forget that he is your greatest peace maker May the truth that he seeks your good rather than his own or. your pleasure tighten the disappoint-. ments of this hour. Before the sun. set bell shall proclaim the close of this marvel of the Twentieth Century. the President of the United States hopes to meet you face to face.
 stCalifornia is a state of mystery, of seeming madness and method state rep1ete with art, science, literature, law, order, and material prosperity of marvellous accomplishment. What others took to be the mutterfngs of a. mighty man in sleep, she has made the aIl-compelling language of her people This exposition had to be to Justify in the mind of man the poten- cy of dreams and Visions over mere material things It Is in consonance
 
 time in the hurrying rush Of restless men it had to be, but 1t came sooner i than it otherwise would have come. becuase some on dreamed that here in this sun-kfssed cline there lay the seven cities of Cibola-
 Surely he should not be charged with being merely poetic in mind who on this occasion boldly declares sthat California is the product of a dream and that this exposition is the composite photograph Of dreaners. The seven cities of -Cibola, have be- come seventy and-sev cities of cuI- | ture, wealth and character. The dream of the Anian Strait has become a reality south of Mexico 1t is trues but nevertheless a reality called the Panama Canal
 T am sure I express the thought of the President and the hope of the American people when I say that | our CS14<4 w as 011l1J AOB [d4On9 TOT glory or great gain, but with a sin cere desire to. make the whole world l kin There are two gospels now in stead Of one: The gospel of good will has been supplemented with the gospeT of personal contact.
 The gospel of good will continues to be supreme, but nothing will help it preach so loudly as those human 1 agencies which eliminate distance, ] blend languages, and give us sight as well as knowledge each or the oth- CT.
 sI am quite sure that I am but l one of a countless throng in this re- work has real or seeming defect l in the charge of an injustice done 3 sister Republic to the south. Let us not be too much dismayed this day by reason of that fact The Amer1- can people are wise and they know he is not wise who is not just. look with confidence for the early arrival of that good hour when whatever l Ercng may have been done shall be I lighted and when there will be left no drop of bitter water to flow ln that channel which 1nites the seas. ] From the first to the present, the President of the United States, when ever thought has been voiced upon the subject, that thought has been that we exist for hunanity's sake as much as for our own. that we crave friendly relations with all people and entangIing alliances with none While half the world is in a rage in descrfbable and unutterable. seeking to build monuments out of clay kneaded in brothers blood; sad eyed and sober the goddess of our Institutions seeks to hold out to a warning world the olive branch o4 peace.
 ..Ostensibly am here in the name of the President of the United States l to dedicate this exposition in gIorifi- 1 cation of the completion of the canal I Really that waterway from its be ginning was dedicated to the, idea and the ideals of the republic.
 Here men of every age and every cline behold the noon day of the worlds accomplishment, the crystal ization of the dreams and thoughts of genius and of talent. May we not hope that here a thought-dawn will De born that shall not cease tc broaden until at it's meridian light all men around the world are one 2 '