ANNUAL EXHIBITION—ADDEESSES. 
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ought to be taken by the throat and held until they subserve 
the interests of the people. But the mischief can be greatly 
diminished by the encouragement of home industry. It seems 
as if the people would not much longer endure it to go 3,000 
miles for articles that can be manufactured here at home. 
The speaker understood that there were 6,000 or 7,000 of 
one particular important machine sold in this state every year, 
and that machine is made more than a thousand miles from 
here, near by wdiere he used to live. He believed in concen¬ 
tration of labor; in the promotion of home interests; in the 
encouragement of immigration from every quarter of the 
globe; and in this way Wisconsin shall grow to a still greater 
empire of happy homes. 
HE. WAEDEE. 
Hr. Warder, of Cincinnati, was introduced, but excused 
himself after a few remarks, complimenting this fair in com¬ 
parison with others. 
SPEECH OP HON. GEO. B. SMITH. 
Hon. Geo. B. Smith was then called upon. He said he was 
a lawyer by profession, but by practice a farmer. (Laughter). 
The gentlemen who had spoken were very good theorists; 
but there wasn’t one of them who ever knew anything about 
farming ! He had devoted his life to the interests of agricul¬ 
ture ; his days had been given to the promotion of the public 
good. (Laughter). These other people were all politicians ; 
they were all after votes. Mr. Smith continued to insist on 
his valuable agricultural experience, though his claim seemed 
to be received with some incredulity, except by the people 
from the unpaved districts. He had been to California, he 
said; the rest of the party went merely for fun and sight-see- 
iug, but he went as an agriculturist. (Laughter). And what 
he had to say was, that there wasn’t forty acres of land in 
Wisconsin that wasn’t worth more than any forty thousand 
acres on the central plains. If anybody heard that great sub- 
