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political interests; they wanted Gladstone, but the Queen was 
sick and he is unable to come; and so they settled down on 
Mitchell and me, and Mitchell isn’t here. 
I do sincerely congratulate you on this gathering, so pleas¬ 
ant and so full of profit. I concur in what the honorable Sen¬ 
ator says in respect to fairs. They should, by good rights, 
have an elevating tendency. We do not come here as mere 
sensualists, but because this intermingling contributes some¬ 
what to our higher natures. The world may be challenged to 
witness such a growth in thirty years as our own fair state of 
Wisconsin exhibits, as manifested by the scenes within this fair¬ 
ground enclosure. In my journeymgs in Europe I saw in the 
stables of the best breeders no cattle equal to those to be seen 
here to-day. Our fairs are not like those of the east, nor are 
our people like theirs. In going through the state, you will 
find homes like palaces, and barns like those in the Juniata 
Valley. This is the beauty of our civilization, that we develop 
intellectually as well as materially. Have you not marked the 
wonderful thing that Mr. Capron, who used to exhibit his stock 
in our fairs, has been sent for by 30,000,000 of people who 
-stretch out their hands to be taught in farming matters by one 
of your own number? That will do for hifialutin. 
The speaker gave his hearers some good advice about insta¬ 
bility of labor, and counseled subdivided farming. He gave 
the boys some good advice about following the profession of 
farming, and advised them to avoid the city. 
Upon taking his seat, he was succeeded by General Samuel 
Fallows, who had not entirely recovered from a somewhat se¬ 
vere indisposition. He addressed the audience in substance, 
as follows: 
SPEECH OF GENERAL SAMUEL FALLOWS. 
Mr. President—Ladits and Gentlemen: 
I suppose I am thus unexpectedly called upon to speak at 
this time because it is deemed necessarv to have “ a word of 
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exhortation ” at the close of the speeches of the distinguished 
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