Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1901 — SPEAKS AT THE FAIR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SPEAKS AT THE FAIR

M’KINLEY IS PROUD OF OUR NEW GLORIES, President’* Day at the Buffalo Exposition the Occasion of His speech—He Draws Attention to Onr Wonderful Progress in Commerce. Y* President’s Day at the Buffalo exposition brought out crowds who. took the opportunity to see the nation’s chief. AVhat xbus probably the greatest crowd that ever assembled on the Esplanade at the Pan-American grounds greeted the President with cheers as he entered the stand erected there. The Esplanade was crowded to suffocation and the vast assemblage overflowed to the court of fountains. President McKinley’s address was the great feature of the day and its telling points were welcomed with repeated applause. After the formal exercises the Presidential party made the tour of the grounds under the escort of the exposition officers. Speech by the President. President Milburn, Director General Buchanan, commissioners, ladles and gentlemen: I am glad to be again in the city of Buffalo and exchange greetings with her people, to whose hospitality X am not a stranger, and with whose good will 1 have been repeatedly and signally honored. Xo-day I have additional satisfaction In meeting and giving welcome to the foreign representatives assembled here, whose presence and participation in this exposition have contributed in so marked a degree to its interests and success. To the commissioners of the Dominion of Canada and the British colonies, the French colonies, the Republic of Mexico and of Central and South America and the commissioners of Cuba and I’orto Rico, who share with us in this undertaking, we give the hand of fellowship aud felicitate with them upon the triumphs of art, science, education and manufacture which the older lias bequeathed to the hew country. Expositions are the timekeepers of progress. They record the world’s advancement. They stimulate the energy, enterprise aud intellect of the people and quicken human genius. They go into the home. They broaden and brighten the daily life of the people. They open mighty storehouses of information to the student. Every exposition, great or small, has helped to some onward step. Comparison of ideas is always educational; and as such instructs the brain and band of man. Friendly rivalry follows, which is the spur of industrial Improvement, the Inspiration to useful invention and to high endeavor in all departments of human activity. It exacts a study of the wants, comforts and even the whims of the people and recognizes the efficacy of high quality and low prices to win tlieir favor. The quest for trade la nn incentive to men of business to devise, invent, improve and economize in the cost of production. Business life, whether among ourselves or with other peoples, is ever a sharp struggle for success. It will be none the less so in the future. My fellow citizens, trade statistics Indicate that this country is in a state of unexampled prosperity. The figures are almost appalling. They show that we are utilizing our fields, forests and mines, that we are furnishing profitable employment to the mil-, lions of working men throughout the United States, bringing comfort and happiness to their homes and making it possible to lay by savings for old age and disability. That all the people are participating in this great prosperity is seen in every American community and shown by the enormous aud unprecedented deposits In our suvmgs banks. Our duty In the care and security of these deposits aud their safe Investment demands the highest integrity and the best business sagacity of those In charge of these depositories of the people’s By sensible trade arrangements which will not interrupt our home production we shall extend the outlets for our increasing surplus. A system which provides a mutual exchange of commodities is manifestly essential to the continued and healthful growth of our export trade. We must not repose in fancied security that we can forever sell everything and buy little or nothing. If such a thing were possible it would not be best for us or for those with whom we deal. We sho-uld take from our customers such of their products as we can use without harm to our industries and labor. Iteciproclty Is the natural outgrowth of our wonderful industrial development under the domestic policy, now firmly established. If perchance some of our tariffs nre no longer needed for revenue or to encourage and protect our industries at home, why should they not be employed to extend aud promote our markets abroad? Then, too, we have iuadequate steamship service. New lines of steamers have already been put In commission between the Pacific const ports of the United States and those on the western coasts of Mexico and Central and South America. These should be followed up with direct steamship lines between the eastern coast of the United States and South American ports. »One of the needs of the times Is direct comiiwecial lines from our vast fields of production to the fields of consumption that we have but barely touched. Next in advantage to having the thing to. sell is to have the conveyance to carry it to the buyer. We must encourage our merchant marine. We must have more ships. They must be under ihe American flag, built aud manned and owned by Americans. These will not only be profitable in a commercial sense, they will be messengers of peace and amity wherever they g°. Must Build Caaai. We must build the Isthmian canal, which will unite the two oceans and give a straight line of water communication with the western coasts of Central aud South America aud Mexico. The construction of a X’uciflc cable cannot be longer postponed. In the furtherance of these objects of national interest and concern you are performing an Important purt. This exposition would have touched the heart of that American statesman whose mind was ever alert aud thought ever constant for n larger commerce nnd a tiher fraternity of the republics of the, new world. Ills broad American spirit Is felt and manifested bere. He needs no identification to nn assemblage of Americans anywhere, for the nurne of Blaine is inseparably associated with the l’an-Aineriean movement which finds here practical and substantia! expression, aud which we all hope will be firmly advanced by the PanAmerican Congress that assembles this autumn In the capital of Mexico. The good work will go on. It cannot be stopped. These buildings will disappear; this creation of art nnd beauty and Industry will perish from sight, but their influence will remnlnto • Make It live beyond Its short living. With praises nnd thanksgiving." Who cun tell the new thoughts that will be wrought through this exposition? Gentlemen, let us ever remember thut our interest is In concord, not conflict, and that our real eminence rests In the victories of peace, not those of war. We hope that all who are represented here muy be moved to higher and nobler efforts for their own and the world’s good, ami Chut out of this city may come, not only great commerce nnd trade for us all, but more essential than those, relations of mutual respect, confidence and friendship, which will deepen and endure. Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness and fieuce to all our neighbors, nnd like bleasngs to all the people nnd powers of earth. At McKinley, a little town twenty miles east of Guthrie, Okla., Thomas Lipscomb nnd AVillihin Martin, negro renters on the same farm, quarreled over Martin’s horse eating the tops of Lipscomb’s corn, nnd Lipscomb shot Martin three times with a 44-eaHber revolver, producing fatal wound*. Colombia is in need of money to help suppress the rebellion now led by Gen. Uribe-Uribu. Plow manufseturers will increase price* about 10 per cent.

MRS. M’KINLEY IS BRAVE The President’s Wife Bears Up Courageously Under the Shack. When it became necessary that Mrs. McKinley should be informed of what had overtaken her illustrious husband she surprised all about her by bearing up bravely under the shock. Dr., Rixey carried the news to her, and her first request was that Mr. McKinley should be ■'brought to her at once if it were at all possible. Director General Buchanan had arranged so that no news of the shooting should ’ penetrate the Milburn residence. He had shut off the telephonic aud telegraphic communication with the mansion, and secret police halted every one going toward the house. , It was realized, though, that Mrs. McKinley must be told before long, and Mr. Buchanan was selected for the task. Dr. Rixey went to the house and broke the news to the Misses Duncan and Barber. He waited a time for Mr. Buchanan to arrive, and then, his' presence in the house having already roused some slight suspicion that everything was not quite right, he made bold to inform Mrs. McKinley. The President's wife caught at the physician’s first words, nnd she divined that Mr. McKinley had been injured in some accident. But Dr. Rixey did not yield temptation there may have been for him to temper the blow by permitting her to think she had guessed aright. He held bravely to his task and told the whole story. Mrs. McKinley bore up surprisingly well. She was allowed to see the President for a few minutes and then went to her room. No fears for her life are entertained, but the doctors are on guard. PASSES RESTFUL NIGHT. No Alarming Conditions Present Up Until Noon Saturday. Saturday morning President McKinley maintained a good measure of his strength and those who watched at hi§ bedside held higher hope for his ultimato recovery. The shock from the wounds inflicted upon him by Leon Czolgosz seemed to have been less than was anticipated, and that was regarded as highly favorable to him. It was admitted, however, that the crisis in his condition had not yet come. Bulletins that came from the chamber of the wounded President during the night and early hours of the morning all indicated a spirit of hopefulness. ' The President rested well, there were no alarming conditions of temperature or pulse and the spirits of the sufferer were strong and cheery. The feeling of hope was.quite general about the Milburn residence, to which the President had been removed from the hospital, In sharp contrast to the hopelessness and regret that prevailed early the previous night. CABINET HEARS THE NEWS. Member* of the President’9 Officiul Family Express Kecret. Members of President McKinley’s cabinet heard of the attempt to assassinate the chief executive with expressions of deepest grief. The shock of the new* nearly prostrated two of them, it was so unexpected. Immediately upon hearing of the shooting Postmaster General Smith and Secretaries Root and Hitchcock started for Buffalo, nnd the others arranged to go to the bedside of the President as soon as possible. News of the attempted assassination of the President came as a thunderbolt upon the officials at tho White House. Upon its receipt

over the telephone from the newspaper olHces, Col. Montgomery, who is in charge of the telegraph service at the executive mansion, lost no time in securing a through wire to the hospital in which the President lay. PUNISHMENT LOW ASSAILANT. Only General Stutut--* Cover Attempt to Take President’s Life. There is no law outside of general criminal statutes for the punishment of attempting the life of the President of the United States. The question of passing such a law has been discussed in Congress, but nothing has been done. The President is a citizen of the United States, and his murder or an attempt on his life is punished as would be the murder of any other citizen. Should this assault upon President McKinley prove to be a murder, the murderer would be executed either by the laws of New York or the Federal statutes for the District of Columbia. But should the President recover the charge brought against his assailant would be assault with attempt to commit murder. In New York, where this would-be assassin must be tried, the severest penalty for assault with attempt to commit murder is ten years' imprisonment, while in the District of Columbita the penulty for the same crime is imprisonment for from seven to twenty years. PHYSICIANS' - BULLETIN. The President's physicians Issued the following bulletin at 9 a. m. Saturday: "The President passed a fairly comfortable night and no serious symptoms have developed. Poise 140. temperature 102, .’expiration 24. "P. M. lUXKY, "M. D. MANN. "ROSWELL PARKE. “HERMAN MYNTER. "EUGENE WASDIN, Comment by the Papers. Editors of newspapers In every part of the country Join In denunciation of President McKinley’s a*«allant. The press of all parties ia united in pointing out the good qualities of the President and in expressing the wishes of the people for his speedy recovery.

MRS. WILLIAM M’KINLEY.