366 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE 



Mayor of Richmond. We give Mr. Keiley's most felicitoua 

 address of welcome in full. It is as follows : 



ADDRESS OF MAYOR KEILEY. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen : — It is a pleasant service 

 to be charged with extending you, as I am happy to do, a very 

 cordial welcome to our city, on behalf of tne authorities and 

 people of Richmond, and I embrace the occasion also to con- 

 gratulate my fellow citizens on the presence among them of 

 so large and intelligent a body of gentlemen from all parts of 

 our common country, engaged in a duty so beneficent that 

 their deliberations will provoke hostile criticism in no quarter. 



The union of science with labor is among the most charac- 

 teristic peculiarities of our age. The time was when philoso- 

 phy marched along the highways of the earth, wrapped in a 

 lordly pride which disdained all association with labor, and if 

 it deigned to cast a look across the hedge that divided it from 

 the field and the garden, it was to vent its scorn on the dusty 

 hand and less intelligent brain there engaged. From this, two 

 great evils resulted. First, agriculture and every other form of 

 fruitful labor lost the important aid of philosophy, and, sec- 

 ondly, philosophy itself lost the powerful stimulus which profit 

 lends to every development of human efibrt. 



Almost within our memories all this has been changed ; the 

 white hand has clasped the brown, the teeming brain 

 has grasped the plow, the pruning-hook, and the sickle, 

 and those great agencies for the betterment of our race 

 whom God hath joined are no longer by man to be sundered. 

 And with what splendid results on every hand ! Surely if he 

 may be claimed to be a benefactor of his race who makes two 

 blades of grass grow where only one grew before, your praise 

 should be a thousand-fold greater who have taken the bitter 

 fruit of a thorny tree in the wilds of Eastern Europe, unfitted 

 for food for man or beast, and therefrom have developed the 

 most delicious fruit of our day in more than five hundred vari- 

 eties. [Applause.] And lastly, gentlemen, I welcome you with 



