Exhibition—annual Addresses. 
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ANNUAL ADDKESSES 
Delivered on the Fair Grounds, September 25, 1873, by J. H. Twombly, D. D., President of 
the University of Wisconsin, Governor C. C. Washburn, and Geo. E. Morrow, Editor of 
the Western Farmer. 
MECHANICAL AND MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES. 
BY J. H. TWOMBLY, D. D. 
Mr. President and Fellow Citizens: We meet to-day for congrat¬ 
ulations and words of encouragement. Around us are evidences 
of peace and plenty, yet the fact of a wide-spread dissatisfaction 
thrusts itself uoon our attention. The intense, outbursting life 
of a young and intelligent people, aided by beneficent showers, 
genial suns, rich soils and national peace have insured harvests- 
which make the toilers sing with gladness, yet, mingling with 
the songs of the reapers, are notes of complaint and disquietude.- 
On the hill top and in the valley, along the fertilizing stream, and 
by the quiet lake, are heard the notes of grievance. A profound 
conviction has seized upon the industrial classes, that custom, law 
and monopolies have conspired to unsettle the balances of justice, 
and that they are subjected to taxation and extortion which hon¬ 
orable men should not endure. Startled ears hear premonitory 
thunders. In the work-shops along the Atlantic coast, in the 
quiet fields and crowded cities of the middle states, and on the 
broad prairies of the fertile west, earnest men are conning the fiery 
denunciations of the ancient seers as appropriate to their oppres¬ 
sors. The secret nightly gatherings, the numerous conventions 
held amid the pressure of business, the sharp discussions heard m 
the shop, and in the mart of trade, or finding utterance through 
the popular press, demonstrate the prevalence of wrong, and a 
resolute will to resist it. 
We have no wish, by picturing scenes of real or fancied wrong r 
to inflame passions already excited, or in any way to widen the 
