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attending. The advantages there offered for learning will be unequaled 

 and if intelligently made use of an education so to speak can be much 

 more easily and rapidly gained than by reading or traveling. Instead of 

 having to visit the different nations of the earth at great distance and 

 expense they will be here assembled for the common good of all. We 

 should be the more proud of this greatest of all expositions for the reason 

 that it has been brought into existence largely by Missouri energy, intel- 

 ligence and money with one of our most gifted and beloved Missourians 

 at its head backed up also by a loyal sisterhood of states. Here on 

 Missouri soil occupying almost the exact center of our Union the North, 

 South, East as well as the unequaled West, will be assembled together 

 welcoming with one united outstretched hand, the nations of the earth 

 in friendly rivalry to take part in this mighty effort to enlighten the 

 world. We will learn from them and they, no doubt, from us. In this 

 effort Missouri will be a central figure and much will be expected of 

 her. With her million dollar appropriation, I believe she will prove 

 equal to the occasion but not without much thought, hard work and sacri- 

 fice of time from personal business on the part of the Commission upon 

 whom rests the responsibility of making the exhibit of our State. As 

 a member of that Commission I can truthfully say I feel the weight of 

 this responsibility and I am certain every member feels the same. 



Of the Missouri live stock exhibit in particular am I expected to 

 speak. That she will here do her part well I can say without boasting 

 that I haven't the slightest doubt. There is no way by which we can 

 judge the future with more certainty than by the past. In both national 

 and international shows of live stock in the past Missouri has led in several 

 lines of live stock, notably so in cattle, hogs, sheep, light horses, jack 

 stock and mules. And who is it in this enlightened age that has not heard 

 of the Missouri mule? The Hon. Champ Clark has well said that in the 

 war between this country and Spain the Missouri boys started for the 

 front and but few of them got there, but the Missouri mule was in it 

 fiom start to finish. His superiority seems to be recognized the world 

 over and biy thousands he journeyed as far as South Africa and ma- 

 terially aided our English Cousins in conquering the gallant Boers. 



At the Chicago World's Fair I saw a Missouri exhibit of fine wool 

 sheep win three-fourths of the first prizes, to say nothing of lesser prizes 

 he won. This exhibitor was none other than the late L, E. Shattuck of 

 Stanberry, Mo., and he had for competition a very large exhibit of the 

 very best the world could produce. The further eastern states for more 

 than half a century looked upon as the home of the fine wool sheep were 

 there in all their old-time glory but went down in defeat under the 

 weight of the Missouri genius. I have heard many well posted stock 



