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cook our meat in it. There is nothing in it but what would make us 

 strong and able to fight, and," he said, "While I don't blame you, still it 

 is a fact that if the United States had not furnished England so much 

 beef and so many mules, we would have whipped her in spite of fate." 

 That South African farmer said further: "The war has destroyed our 

 horses. The English put explosives under our farm implements and 

 blew them to pieces, but the great God that rules over the destinies of 

 our people has given us plenty of coal in the bowels of the earth and we 

 are getting it out. I have purchased two steam gang plows and I am 

 going to ship them to South Africa and with these I am going to plow 

 my land by steam." He owned six thousand acres of this African prairie. 

 I said : "My friend— because I am your friend, as are all Missourians— 

 when you get ready to ship your implements back to South Africa, 

 come to the Missouri space. I want to take out some of the best seed 

 corn in this space and I want you to carry it back to South Africa and 

 plant it in the name of Missouri." He came back and I picked out two 

 barrels of the best corn I could find in the space and he took it back with 

 him. Their season is the reverse of ours, and it was planted the first of 

 September and is growing today. That is another thing that the World's 

 Fair has enabled Missouri to do. It has not only enabled her to show 

 the wonderful products of this wonderful State of ours, but it has also 

 enabled her to show that she is a friend of oppressed and down-trodden 

 humanity wherever that humanity exists. 



This subject, ladies and gentlemen, is a pleasant one to me. You 

 will remember that when the proposition of the World's Fair was first 

 suggested, I favored that proposition. The people of Missouri responded 

 to the call of the Missouri Legislature and generously appropriated a 

 million dollars for Missouri to participate in that great enterprise. The 

 Missouri Commission have up-to-date — (they have not finished) — spent 

 about eight hundred thousand dollars of that million dollar appfopria- 

 tion, and I want to say as a native born Missourian, that, to my mind, 

 it is the best money that the State has ever expended. Do you believe 

 me when I tell you that people have come to the Missouri space — (and 

 you will pardon me, ladies and gentlemen, for speaking of the Agri- 

 cultural space, for the reason that that is the only space that I had any 

 thing to do with, and the people that came to that space are the only 

 ones that I met. I do not want anybody to think that T want to boost 

 the Agricultural display over the other Missouri displays, because it 

 was the universal verdict of every lady and gentleman that I conversed 

 with at the Exposition that — go where you would from the State Build- 

 ing to any of her exhibits — that Missouri stood head and shoulders, in 



