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Show [99 193 The latest discoveries, the newest, inventions, the triumphs in art, in science, in education, in the solution of social and even of religious problems, are here arrayed. llcre stand the, most effective, dynamo, the swiftest locomotive. the telescope piercing the remotest heavens, the most productive printingr press, machines that spin, weave, set type, thresh grain, mine coal. drill rock, fashion railway bars; the artist's dream on canvas or in marble, in clustering: column or aspiring dome, in woven fabric or in decorated vase; the flowers ellulgence and the fruits alluring blush; all products of the soil, the mine. the sea: whatever testi- ties to the industry, the skill. the creative and almost divine power of human thought when stimulated to its most earnest endeavors. The more we share with others the good we possess, the more they share with us the things and thoughts that make for leace with them. The more we all strive for the common good, the nearer we will attain the universal brotherhood. Let us all hope that this twentieth century will witness the dawn of a new era, that it will go down in history as the, age of ion peace, the age when a common desire seemed to take pos. of humanity everywhere to Share with all others the blessings they themselves enjoyed. Thus would be augmented the great sum of human happiness. I am hoping that future expositions will leave out the engi- nery of war. 1 know that we had a warship and the Krupp gun at our own exposition, but I am older now and I have a higher and a grander appreciation of the implements of peace and an intense dislike amounting to a hatred of war and all its trappings. The nations of the earth unite in a movement to maintain a universal court whose duty it will be to determine and adjust all national differences. I would have representing this court on the high seas one navy and only one, whose duty it would be to police the seas. prevent possible piracy or improper or illegal commerce and assist the merchant marine in time of disaster or distress. The money thus saved would go far towards the care of the sick and the unfortunate the world over and would add to the peace and pru»pcrity of the people everywhere far beyond the power of the human mind to conceive or calculate. i would rather have. Mr. Chairman, any sixteen men chosen froi'i your association make a circuit of the globe than as many for huinauit warships. i believe they would accomplish more good and for the peace and prosperity of the world, and they ago would cost intinitely less. l was myself surprised a few days in learning that our national budget for wars past and possible future had trust our nation during; the last session of Congregs more than live hundred millions of dollars: in fact, more than half the expenses of the government were on this account. The relations that 1 Would have pertain between the nations old of the earth can best be expressed by relating a story or Jewish legend that i once, heard. one Two aged brothers whose landed inheritance adjoined, each the of them being very rich and the other poor, conceived the rich idea of helping the other as follows: At the harvest time carry and night of dead the in go will "I himself, brother said to field and he some of the sheaves from my field into my brother's "My brother will not know." And the poor brother said to himself, and respou» s dependent many and family large a is rich, but he has he has to bear. sibilities and is sorely tried with the many burdens night and carry some and to relieve him I will go in the dead of in his." [t is further them place and field my of the sheaves from each bearing a heavy related that as they were thus engaged, the division line face to burden of the golden grain, they met at met Solonimi's temple they spot the on that face, and it is also said was afterwards reared. Mn. ROBERTS: who was on the proi have a telegram from Mr. tiilreath, as trillnws: lllinois, Champaigu, Q‘ram this morning; dated nt on program tor t till my engageme Z ‘ "1 regret i canno V.‘ ‘ 4 A fl t t ‘ 4 collided \\l|ll a bull list address this morning. My iiain to he: l but ng my delay, evening". disabling both and causi respect. great with nce dista this at salute the Congress upon the platiorm this morn\Ve are so fortunate as to have one of the, great parliameir of er memb a is who n ing a Gentlema e ol l'zirliament ot (treat Hous the , world tarv bodies of the inn I ‘1 in"a HM" libtit} ‘ oii tilli . tlit », ' g to take and I am gom ' Brita I" in, the sympathy greeting. and CXlH'k‘s‘slllL'; to 521V :1 few words of |