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a short time. He would direct their attention to a few points. 
And first of all he believed in Fairs. They are a great bless¬ 
ing as well as an amusement to the American p:ople. As a 
nation we are deficient in holidays. While other countries 
have them, we really have but two—one the 4th of July, and 
the other after the golden sheaves of the husbandman are gath¬ 
ered. The American people need relaxation from the incess¬ 
ant toil which characterizes them. Other nations have it. It 
was the speaker’s good fortune to be present at the World’s 
Fair, where the men and the women of the world were gath¬ 
ered, and it was a pleasant and restful thing to see the panora¬ 
mic view of the world’s pleasure and the world’s industry there 
presented. He spoke of the great fairs in the east, which con¬ 
tinued for months, where the Asiatics and the Kussians meet 
and mingle. Of course such fairs could not be held here, but 
it is eminently proper that Americans should gather on such 
occasions as this that we may learn of each other. 
Another thing occurred to him as he passed over the 
fair grounds and saw the machinery which has been invented 
to facilitate the labors incident to the cultivation of the soil, 
and it was this; how almost impossible it would have been 
to have tilled the fields and gathered the harvests when our 
sons and brothers and fathers were engaged in putting down 
the late rebellion, but for the aid of this machinery. What 
could we have done without it? Expressing the satisfaction 
it gave him to witness the evident pleasure and prosperity of 
the people of Wisconsin, as evidenced by this fair, the gentle¬ 
man tookf his seat. 
SPEECH OF HON. E. D. HOLTON. 
Hon. E. D. Holton next came forward and said the officers 
of the State Agricultural Society were not in fault for the lack 
of orators to address the people. They would have had 
Beecher, but he was away fishing ; they wanted Carpenter, but 
he was compelled to attend to Boston ; they would have spoken 
to Grant, but that he is so busy in taking care of his future 
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