14 New Yoek at the "Wokld's Columbian Exposition. 



and who uses men never intrusted a great purpose to a mean soul. The 

 bearer may not fully know tl e weighty business on which he goes, but 

 something of its meaning shines upon him and from his tempered visage 

 enforces homage. The lonely Genoese pacing the deck of his caravel, 

 watching for land, and no land from day to day, must have had glimpses 

 of the new hemisphere and visions of its destiny. And so your Chris- 

 topher Columbus and mine is, as his name implies, the anointed bearer of 

 a blessing for mankind, a preparer and an opener of a new world in 

 which man should be free from his brother, true to himself and obedient 

 to his Maker. It is such a man about whose statue we are to walk at this 

 exposition. It is the tree of his planting which we are to consider as we 

 eat of its fruits. No section, no state, no Chicago can hug this blessing 

 to its single bosom. It is for us all. Let all the people participate in its 

 enjoyment. 



We do not deny our disappointment when the World's Fair winged 

 a westward flight. We know that if the unities had been consulted 

 neither New York nor Chicago wou d have been selected, but the celebra- 

 tion of the great discoverer would have been beneath southern skies and 

 where the ocean sea washes the true Guanhani. We claimed the celebra- 

 tion in New York because we were the supreme city of the western 

 hemisphere. We ha\ e lost the fair, but our city has relinquished none 

 of her supremacy. It will be mock humility now if we offer to tear 

 down our huts to build Chicago's palace. Rather let us rejoice that we 

 are great and strong, and that out of our fullness we may aid our sister 

 city of the West. Chicago deserves our eapport. She has won our admira- 

 tion. To raise $10,000,000 of money for a sentimental purpose is a task 

 which any metropolis might approach with hesitation. Chicago has 

 accomplished this in a few short weeks. Our blood runs faster as we 

 recognize this magnificent courage, and we would share in her labor that 

 we may justly share in her glory. Nothing pertaining to humanity is 

 foreign to the true man. Nothing pertaining to our country is foreign to 

 the true American. We are one people, one family. When prosperity 

 spreads her sheltering wings in the East the West is safe and happy. 

 When in the West the fields of grain stretch far and wide we in the East 

 eat bread without scarceness. 



Chicago does not come to us with an offertory basket in her hand. 

 She comes bringing to us a flag with the colors of the World's Columbian 

 Exposition upon its bright folds. She asks us to wave it in token of 

 friendship and a common interest. Let the noble contention between us 

 be from this hour which hand shall bear this flag furthest in the march of 

 triumph and which voice shall loudest proclaim its glory. 



