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through their governors and their armies and navies, be prepared for wars 

 of extermination across the Atlantic, but on this side and within the gates 

 of the White City each of them rejoices in the triumphs of the other and 

 applauds its efforts in the celebration of any excelle ice or advance in the 

 industrial arts. 



The influence of this commingling of races upon the lofty plane of 

 human achievement and progress, of the commingling of clashing creeds 

 in the congress of religions carried by representatives here present to all 

 parts of the habitable globe, must result in nobler aspirations and greater 

 efforts for the friendship of nations and the harmony of the world. 



Our interests as a republic have been especially concentrated in the 

 celebrations of the several States of the Union. When Illinois or 

 Pennsylvania, Ohio or Wisconsin, Kansas or Missouri, California or 

 Oregon, Georgia or South Carolina, or any of the newer sisters of the 

 West have done their best, the exhibit of their excellence and develop- 

 ment has sent thrills of honest pride and joy through the Empire State of 

 New York. It has been a pride and joy shared by all the States when 

 each one has demonstrated its claims for distinction and exhibited its 

 growth. The lesson has been enforced over and over again until it has 

 become the morning and evening salutation in every household in this 

 broad land, that we are one people, the citizens of one great republic and 

 that whatever there is in any department of civilization or liberty, which 

 constitutes the peculiar merit of any State, is the common property of all 

 the Commonwealths of the American Union. 



In this glorious festival and generous rivalry it was eminently fit that 

 Chicago should take the lead. The T00,000 of her sons and daughters 

 who passed through the gates of the White City on " Chicago day " were 

 the living witnesses of the indomitable courage, the unfailing enthu- 

 siasm, the comprehensive wisdom and the brilliant genius which con- 

 ceived and executed upon such superb lines by a (vorld's exposition the 

 celebration of the 400th year of the discovery of America No 

 such crowd ever before was gathered upon a civic occasion within the walls 

 of the temporary abiding place of a fair dedicated to industry and art. 

 Properly concentrated and distributed, they would form a constituency 

 sufiiciently large to be represented in the United States Senate by enough 

 Senators to block the wheels of legislation and stop the movement of 

 government for the next century. 



We entered into the contest with Chicago, seeking to have the 

 World's Fair located in New Vork. I speak within bounds when I say 

 there is to-day no one in New York who is not glad that Chicago suc- 

 ceeded in that struggle. I speak authoritatively for the 3,000,000 of 



