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#002 The Worlds Columbian Exposition Scrapbook, p. 021
from the people, and judges and prosecuting offi-
cers elected by the people. Socialism finds disci-
ples only among those who were its votaries
before they were forced to fly from their native
land, but it does not take root upon American
soil. The State neither supports nor permits
taxation to maintain the church. The citizen can
worship God according to his belief and con-
science, or he may neither reverence nor recog-
nize the Almighty. And yet religion has flourished,
churches abound, the ministry is sustained, and
millions of dollars are contributed annually for
the evangelization of the world. The United
States is a Christian country and a living and
practical Christianity is the characteristic of its
people.
Benjamin Franklin, philosopher and patriot,
amused the jaded courtiers of Louis XIV., by his
talks about liberty, and entertained the scientists
of France by bringing lightning from the clouds.
In the reckoning of time, the period from Frank-
lin to Morse, and from Morse to Edison is but a
span, and yet it makes a material development as
marvellous as it has been beneficient. The world
has been brought into contact and sympathy.
The electric current thrills and unifies the people
of the globe. Power and production, highways
and transports have been so multiplied and im-
proved by inventive genius, that within the cen-
tury of our Independence sixty-four millions of
people have happy homes and improved condi-
tions within our borders. We have accumulated
wealth far beyond the visions of the Cathay of
Columbus, or the El Dorado of De Soto But the
farmers and freeholders, the savings banks and
shops illustrate its universal distribution. The
majority are its possessors and administrators. In
housing and living, in the elements which make
the toiler a self-respecting and respected citizen,
in avenues of hope and ambition for children, in
all that gives broader scope and keener pleasure
to existence, the people of this Republic enjoy
advantages far beyond those of other lands. The
unequalled, and phenomenal progress of the
country has opened wonderful opportunities for
making fortunes, and stimulated to madness the
desire and rush for the accumulation of money.
Material prosperity has hot debased literature nor
debauched the press; it has neither paralized nor
repressed intellectual activity. American science
and letters have received rank and recognition in
the older centers of learning. The demand for
higher education has so taxed the resources of
the ancient universities, as to compel the founda-
tion and liberal endowment of colleges all over the
Union. Journals, remarkable for their ability,
independence and power, find their strength, not
in the patronage of government, or the subsidies
of wealth, but in the support of a nation of news-
paper readers. The humblest and poorest per-
son, has in periodicals whose price is counted
in pennies, a library larger, fuller and more
varied, than was within the reach of the rich in
the time of Columbus.
The sum of human happiness has been infinitely
increased by the millions from the Old World who
have improved their conditions in the New, and
the returning tide of lesson and experience has
incalculably enriched the Fatherlands. The
divine right of kings has taken its place with the
instruments of mediaeval torture among the curi-
osities of the antiquary. Only the shadow of
kingly authority stands between the government
of themselves, by themselves, and the people of
Norway and Sweden. The union in one Empire
of States of Germany, is the symbol of Teutonic
power, and the hope of German liberalism. The
petty despotisms of Italy have been merged into
a nationality which has centralized its authority
in its ancient capitol on the hills of Rome. France
was rudely roused from the sullen submission of
centuries to intolerable tyranny, by her soldiers
returning from service in the American revolu-
tion. The wild orgies of the reign of terror were
the revenges and excesses of a people, who had
discovered their power, but were not prepared for
its beneficent use. She fled from herself into the
arms of Napoleon. He too was a product of the
American experiment. He played with kings, as
with toys, and educated France for liberty. In
the processes of her evolution from darkness to
light, she tried Bourbon, and Orleanist and the
third Napoleon and cast them aside. Now in the
fullness of time, and through the training in the
school of hardest experience, the French people
have reared and enjoy a permanent Republic.
England of the Mayflower, and of James the Second,
England of George the Third and of Lord
North, has enlarged suffrage and is to-day ani-
mated and governed by the democratic spirit.
She has her throne, admirably occupied by one of
the wisest of sovereigns and best of women, but it
would not survive one dissolute and unworthy
successor. She has her hereditary Peers, but the
House of Lords will be brushed aside the moment
it resists the will of the people.
The time has arrived for both a closer union,
and greater distance between the Old World and
the New. The former indiscriminate welcome to
oar prairies, and the the present invitation to
these palaces of art and industry, mark the pass-
ing period. Unwatched and unhealthy immigra-
tion can no longer be permitted to our shores.
We must have a national quarantine against dis-
ease, pauperism and crime. We do not want can-
didates for our hospitals, our poor houses, or our
jails. We cannot admit those who come to under-
mine our institutions, and subvert our laws. But
we will gladly throw wide our gates for, and
receive with open arms, those who by intelligence
and virtue, by thrift and loyalty, are worthy of re-
ceiving the equal advantages of the priceless gift
of American citizenship. The spirit and object
of this exhibition are peace and kinship.
Three millions of Germans, who are among the
best citizens of the Republic, send greeting in
the Fatherland their pride in its glorious history,
its ripe literature, its traditions and associations.
Irish, equal in number to those who still remain
upon the Emerald Isle, who have illustrated their
devotion to their adopted country on many a bat-
tlefield fighting for the Union and its perpetuity,
have rather intensified than diminished their love
for the land of the shamrock, and their sympathy
with the aspirations of their brethren at home.
The Italian, the Spaniard, and the Frenchman,
the Norwegian, the Swede, and the Dane, the
English, the Scotch, and the Welsh, are none the
less loyal and devoted Americans, because in this
congress of their kin, the tendrils of affection
draw them closer to the hills and valleys, the
legends and the loves associated with their youth.
Edmund Burke, speaking in the British Parlia-
ment with prophetic voice, said: "A great revo-
lution has happened a revolution made, not by
chopping and changing of power in any of the
existing States, but by the appearance of a new
State, of a new species, in a new part of the globe.
It has made as great a change in all the relations
and balances and gravitations of power as the
appearance of a new planet would in the system
of the solar world." Thus was the humiliation of
our successful revolt, tempered to the mother-
land, by pride in the State created by her chil-
dren. If we claim heritage in Bacon, Shakespeare
and Milton, we also acknowledge that it was for
liberties guaranteed Englishmen by sacred char-
ters, our fathers triumphantly fought. While
wisely rejecting throne and caste and privilege
and an Established Church in their new-born
state, they adopted the substance of English lib-
erty and the body of English law. Closer rela-
tions than with other lands, and a common
language rendering easy interchanges of criti-
cisms and epithet, sometimes irritate and offend,
but the heart of republican America beats with
responsive pulsations to the hopes and aspirations
of the people of Great Britain.
The grandeur and beauty of this spectacle are
the eloquent witnesses of peace and progress.
The Parthenon and the cathedral exhausted the
genius of the ancient, and the skill of the me-
dieval architects, in housing the statue or spirit
of Deity. In their ruins or their antiquity they
are mute protests against the merciless enmity of
nations, which forced art to flee to the altar for
protection. The United States welcome the sis-
ter republics of the Southern and Northern Conti-
nents, and the nations and peoples of Europe and
Asia, of Africa and Australia, with the products of
their lands, of their skill and of their industry to
this city of yesterday, yet clothed with royal splen-
dor ak the Queen of the Great Takes. The artists
and architects of the country have been bidden to
design and erect the buildings which shall fitly
illustrate the height of our civi ization and the
breadth of our hospitality. The peace of the
world permits and protects their efforts in utiliz-
ing their powers for man's temporal welfare. The
result is this Park of Palaces. The originality
and boldness of their conceptions, and the mag-
nitude and harmony of their creations are the con-
tributions of America to the oldest of the arts and
the cordial bidding of America to the peoples of
the earth to come and bring the fruitage of their
age to the boundless opportunities of this unpar-
alleled exhibition.
If interest in the affairs of this world are vouch-
safed to those who have gone before, the spirit of
Columbus hovers over us to-day. Only by celes-
tial intelligence can it grasp the full significance
of this spectacle and ceremonial.
From the first century to the fifteenth counts
for little in the history of progress, but in the
period between the fifteenth and twentieth is
crowded the romance and reality of human devel-
opment. Life has been prolonged, and its enjoy-
ment intensified. The powers of the air and
water, the resistless forces of the elements,which
in the time of the discoverer were the visible ter-
rors of the wrath of God, have been subdued to
the service of man. Art and luxuries which could
be possessed and enjoyed only by the rich and
noble, the works of genius which were read and
understood by the learned few,domestic comforts
and surroundings beyond the reach of lord or
bishop, now adorn and illumine the homes of our
citizens. Serfs are sovereigns and the people are
kings. The trophies and splendors of their reign
are commonwealths, rich in every attribute of
great States, and united in a Republic whose
power and prosperity, and liberty and enlightment
are the wonder and admiration of the
world.
All hail, Columbus, discoverer, dreamer, hero
and apostle. We here, of every race and country,
recognize the horizon which bounded his vision
and the infinite scope of his genius. The voice of
gratitude and praise for all the blessings which
have been showered upon mankind by his adven-
ture is limited to no language, but is uttered in
every tongue. Neither marble nor brass can fitly
form his statue. Continents are his monuments,
and unnumbered millions, past, present, and to
come, who enjoy in their liberties and their hap-
piness the fruits of his faith, will reverently
guard and preserve, from century to century, his
name and fame.
Object Description
| Title | World's Columbian Exposition 002 |
| Subject LOC |
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) World's Parliament of Religions (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) World's Congress of Representative Women (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Chicago (Ill.)--1890-1900 |
| Subject IDA |
Religion Papers |
| Description | This is a collection of documents from the World's Columbian Exposition and the World Parliament of Religions, which was held in Chicago, Illinois, in 1893. |
| Date Original | 1893 |
| Searchable Date | 1890s (1890-1899) |
| Identifier | WCE 002 |
| Coverage Geographic | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Coverage Temporal | 1890s (1890-1900) |
| Type | Text |
| Collection Publisher | Meadville Lombard Theological School |
| Rights | These documents can be read, downloaded, and the transcripts printed for educationalpurposes. |
| Language | en |
| Contributing Institution | Meadville Lombard Theological School |
| Collection Name | Jenkin Lloyd Jones World’s Columbian Exposition Collection |
Description
| Title | 0021 |
| Subject LOC |
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) World's Parliament of Religions (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) World's Congress of Representative Women (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Chicago (Ill.)--1890-1900 |
| Subject IDA |
Religion Papers |
| Description | This is a collection of documents from the World's Columbian Exposition and the World Parliament of Religions, which was held in Chicago, Illinois, in 1893. |
| Date Original | 1893 |
| Searchable Date | 1890s (1890-1899) |
| Identifier | WCE 002 |
| Coverage Geographic | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Coverage Temporal | 1890s (1890-1900) |
| Type | Text |
| Collection Publisher | Meadville Lombard Theological School |
| Rights | These documents can be read, downloaded, and the transcripts printed for educationalpurposes. |
| Language | en |
| Contributing Institution | Meadville Lombard Theological School |
| Collection Name | Jenkin Lloyd Jones World’s Columbian Exposition Collection |
| Transcript | #002 The Worlds Columbian Exposition Scrapbook, p. 021 from the people, and judges and prosecuting offi- cers elected by the people. Socialism finds disci- ples only among those who were its votaries before they were forced to fly from their native land, but it does not take root upon American soil. The State neither supports nor permits taxation to maintain the church. The citizen can worship God according to his belief and con- science, or he may neither reverence nor recog- nize the Almighty. And yet religion has flourished, churches abound, the ministry is sustained, and millions of dollars are contributed annually for the evangelization of the world. The United States is a Christian country and a living and practical Christianity is the characteristic of its people. Benjamin Franklin, philosopher and patriot, amused the jaded courtiers of Louis XIV., by his talks about liberty, and entertained the scientists of France by bringing lightning from the clouds. In the reckoning of time, the period from Frank- lin to Morse, and from Morse to Edison is but a span, and yet it makes a material development as marvellous as it has been beneficient. The world has been brought into contact and sympathy. The electric current thrills and unifies the people of the globe. Power and production, highways and transports have been so multiplied and im- proved by inventive genius, that within the cen- tury of our Independence sixty-four millions of people have happy homes and improved condi- tions within our borders. We have accumulated wealth far beyond the visions of the Cathay of Columbus, or the El Dorado of De Soto But the farmers and freeholders, the savings banks and shops illustrate its universal distribution. The majority are its possessors and administrators. In housing and living, in the elements which make the toiler a self-respecting and respected citizen, in avenues of hope and ambition for children, in all that gives broader scope and keener pleasure to existence, the people of this Republic enjoy advantages far beyond those of other lands. The unequalled, and phenomenal progress of the country has opened wonderful opportunities for making fortunes, and stimulated to madness the desire and rush for the accumulation of money. Material prosperity has hot debased literature nor debauched the press; it has neither paralized nor repressed intellectual activity. American science and letters have received rank and recognition in the older centers of learning. The demand for higher education has so taxed the resources of the ancient universities, as to compel the founda- tion and liberal endowment of colleges all over the Union. Journals, remarkable for their ability, independence and power, find their strength, not in the patronage of government, or the subsidies of wealth, but in the support of a nation of news- paper readers. The humblest and poorest per- son, has in periodicals whose price is counted in pennies, a library larger, fuller and more varied, than was within the reach of the rich in the time of Columbus. The sum of human happiness has been infinitely increased by the millions from the Old World who have improved their conditions in the New, and the returning tide of lesson and experience has incalculably enriched the Fatherlands. The divine right of kings has taken its place with the instruments of mediaeval torture among the curi- osities of the antiquary. Only the shadow of kingly authority stands between the government of themselves, by themselves, and the people of Norway and Sweden. The union in one Empire of States of Germany, is the symbol of Teutonic power, and the hope of German liberalism. The petty despotisms of Italy have been merged into a nationality which has centralized its authority in its ancient capitol on the hills of Rome. France was rudely roused from the sullen submission of centuries to intolerable tyranny, by her soldiers returning from service in the American revolu- tion. The wild orgies of the reign of terror were the revenges and excesses of a people, who had discovered their power, but were not prepared for its beneficent use. She fled from herself into the arms of Napoleon. He too was a product of the American experiment. He played with kings, as with toys, and educated France for liberty. In the processes of her evolution from darkness to light, she tried Bourbon, and Orleanist and the third Napoleon and cast them aside. Now in the fullness of time, and through the training in the school of hardest experience, the French people have reared and enjoy a permanent Republic. England of the Mayflower, and of James the Second, England of George the Third and of Lord North, has enlarged suffrage and is to-day ani- mated and governed by the democratic spirit. She has her throne, admirably occupied by one of the wisest of sovereigns and best of women, but it would not survive one dissolute and unworthy successor. She has her hereditary Peers, but the House of Lords will be brushed aside the moment it resists the will of the people. The time has arrived for both a closer union, and greater distance between the Old World and the New. The former indiscriminate welcome to oar prairies, and the the present invitation to these palaces of art and industry, mark the pass- ing period. Unwatched and unhealthy immigra- tion can no longer be permitted to our shores. We must have a national quarantine against dis- ease, pauperism and crime. We do not want can- didates for our hospitals, our poor houses, or our jails. We cannot admit those who come to under- mine our institutions, and subvert our laws. But we will gladly throw wide our gates for, and receive with open arms, those who by intelligence and virtue, by thrift and loyalty, are worthy of re- ceiving the equal advantages of the priceless gift of American citizenship. The spirit and object of this exhibition are peace and kinship. Three millions of Germans, who are among the best citizens of the Republic, send greeting in the Fatherland their pride in its glorious history, its ripe literature, its traditions and associations. Irish, equal in number to those who still remain upon the Emerald Isle, who have illustrated their devotion to their adopted country on many a bat- tlefield fighting for the Union and its perpetuity, have rather intensified than diminished their love for the land of the shamrock, and their sympathy with the aspirations of their brethren at home. The Italian, the Spaniard, and the Frenchman, the Norwegian, the Swede, and the Dane, the English, the Scotch, and the Welsh, are none the less loyal and devoted Americans, because in this congress of their kin, the tendrils of affection draw them closer to the hills and valleys, the legends and the loves associated with their youth. Edmund Burke, speaking in the British Parlia- ment with prophetic voice, said: "A great revo- lution has happened a revolution made, not by chopping and changing of power in any of the existing States, but by the appearance of a new State, of a new species, in a new part of the globe. It has made as great a change in all the relations and balances and gravitations of power as the appearance of a new planet would in the system of the solar world." Thus was the humiliation of our successful revolt, tempered to the mother- land, by pride in the State created by her chil- dren. If we claim heritage in Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, we also acknowledge that it was for liberties guaranteed Englishmen by sacred char- ters, our fathers triumphantly fought. While wisely rejecting throne and caste and privilege and an Established Church in their new-born state, they adopted the substance of English lib- erty and the body of English law. Closer rela- tions than with other lands, and a common language rendering easy interchanges of criti- cisms and epithet, sometimes irritate and offend, but the heart of republican America beats with responsive pulsations to the hopes and aspirations of the people of Great Britain. The grandeur and beauty of this spectacle are the eloquent witnesses of peace and progress. The Parthenon and the cathedral exhausted the genius of the ancient, and the skill of the me- dieval architects, in housing the statue or spirit of Deity. In their ruins or their antiquity they are mute protests against the merciless enmity of nations, which forced art to flee to the altar for protection. The United States welcome the sis- ter republics of the Southern and Northern Conti- nents, and the nations and peoples of Europe and Asia, of Africa and Australia, with the products of their lands, of their skill and of their industry to this city of yesterday, yet clothed with royal splen- dor ak the Queen of the Great Takes. The artists and architects of the country have been bidden to design and erect the buildings which shall fitly illustrate the height of our civi ization and the breadth of our hospitality. The peace of the world permits and protects their efforts in utiliz- ing their powers for man's temporal welfare. The result is this Park of Palaces. The originality and boldness of their conceptions, and the mag- nitude and harmony of their creations are the con- tributions of America to the oldest of the arts and the cordial bidding of America to the peoples of the earth to come and bring the fruitage of their age to the boundless opportunities of this unpar- alleled exhibition. If interest in the affairs of this world are vouch- safed to those who have gone before, the spirit of Columbus hovers over us to-day. Only by celes- tial intelligence can it grasp the full significance of this spectacle and ceremonial. From the first century to the fifteenth counts for little in the history of progress, but in the period between the fifteenth and twentieth is crowded the romance and reality of human devel- opment. Life has been prolonged, and its enjoy- ment intensified. The powers of the air and water, the resistless forces of the elements,which in the time of the discoverer were the visible ter- rors of the wrath of God, have been subdued to the service of man. Art and luxuries which could be possessed and enjoyed only by the rich and noble, the works of genius which were read and understood by the learned few,domestic comforts and surroundings beyond the reach of lord or bishop, now adorn and illumine the homes of our citizens. Serfs are sovereigns and the people are kings. The trophies and splendors of their reign are commonwealths, rich in every attribute of great States, and united in a Republic whose power and prosperity, and liberty and enlightment are the wonder and admiration of the world. All hail, Columbus, discoverer, dreamer, hero and apostle. We here, of every race and country, recognize the horizon which bounded his vision and the infinite scope of his genius. The voice of gratitude and praise for all the blessings which have been showered upon mankind by his adven- ture is limited to no language, but is uttered in every tongue. Neither marble nor brass can fitly form his statue. Continents are his monuments, and unnumbered millions, past, present, and to come, who enjoy in their liberties and their hap- piness the fruits of his faith, will reverently guard and preserve, from century to century, his name and fame. |
