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predecessor, I trust that something has been done to turn 
the Exhibition to our practical advantage, as a State ; and 
now, if this report should have the effect to awaken an increas¬ 
ed interest in the subject of international exhibitions, so that, 
in the event of another, we may be ready to do our full share 
in properly representing the resources and wonderful pro¬ 
gress in industry of our common country, I shall feel that my 
labors have not been in vain. 
It is seldom that the lessons taught by great events are care¬ 
fully studied and faithfully applied, by either nations or indi¬ 
viduals ; yet it is hardly conceivable that a vast exhibition, like 
the one just closed, gathering together the thinkers and work¬ 
ers of all lands, and establishing between them relations of 
friendship and cordial sympathy, should fail of the most prof¬ 
itable results to the industry of all; nor that, by thus dif¬ 
fusing the blessings of civilization, and uniting all peoples and 
nations more firmly in the bonds of mutual interest and friend¬ 
ly association, these great world’s gatherings must tend to the 
earlier realization of a universal peace among men. 
J. W. HOYT, 
Commissioner for Wisconsin, 
