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They have given me aU sorts of answers. Some of them have said : 

 "Why, it has advertised Missouri to the East, which never appreciated 

 it before." Others have said that "it has advertised Missouri, not only 

 to the east, but to the civiHzed world, as she has never been advertised 

 before." These things are good, I will admit, but there are other great 

 things that this Fair has done for Missouri. 



This Fair has done somethings, some things it has not done. One thing 

 it has done : this Fair enabled Missouri to discover your distinguished 

 citizen, Walter Williams, and in spite of his extreme modesty, has forced 

 him to acknowledge the fact that he is the author of the best history 

 of Missouri that has ever been written up to date, and that history, to- 

 night, is not only scattered over every state in this glorious Union, but 

 it is being read by the people of every civilized country on earth. But 

 one thing this Fair has not accomplished, fellow citizens, and I rejoice 

 in the fact that it has not, it has not made any change in the countenance 

 of the man who conducts the train that runs from here out to the Wabash 

 main line. From the cap that sits on his head to the shoes that are on 

 his feet, there is a look and an appearance of satisfaction and content- 

 ment. I think he is the best satisfied — the best contented man with the 

 position he holds that I have ever seen in my life. He is cordial to every- 

 body. He assists the ladies on and off the train and he is as well satis- 

 fied as it is necessary for any man in this world to be. And what a 

 great thing, fellow citizens, what a great thing, it is to be satisfied. And 

 the greatest thing, in my judgment that this World's Fair has done for 

 Missouri is that it has satisfied Missourians with this, our own country. 

 It has done more to make Missourians contented with Missouri than all 

 other agencies put together in the last forty years. 



I think I have a right to speak on this question, for the reason that 

 I journeyed over the western half of Missouri and Col. Waters down there 

 journeyed over the eastern half of Missouri, organizing the several coun- 

 ties in this State, looking to the getting out of the displays from these 

 counties, and I say to you that I never understood, and I found the people 

 in these counties did not understand any better than I did, the wonderful, 

 zi'onderful possibilities of this great State of ours. I want to say to 

 you that I found counties where men had been living for years and 

 years, surrounded with peace and plenty and living in comfort — had 

 simply stayed at home. They had looked on the same ridges, they had 

 looked on the same trees and the same houses and the same people until 

 things had become common to them. I have known numbers of these 

 cases where these men in an unguarded moment priced their farms to 

 some passerby and sold out at what they considered fabulous prices, 



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