Show fit C KINLEY SPEAKS Addrss at tbe Tennessee Centennial Exposition UIEIUCN AIIISALIIV TOUMJ But Olil Lnotijlito Permit Uilir Than HID Original slntts lu Ul li alfa alf-a centennial NABHVILIE Tenn June IIPlest dent MiKmlejj speech at the Teunesioe Exposition today was as follows Offlcora of the Tennessee Centennial expoiltlon ladles and gentlemen Amerlcuo nationality compared with that o Europe and tire east la still very young and yet already we are beginning to have ago onoujb lor centennial anniversaries in make other Uian the orUlual 1 thirteen Such 1I fIIB oocaaMua are always Inleresllrn and wbeu celebrated In a practical way re useful aud instructive Combining retrospect and review they recall what ties been done by tale and ua tlon and point out what yet remains Gr both 10 acoompl1oh In order 10 fulfill tbelr highest ueltlny Title celebration la I of general interest Inter-est to Ibo whole country and special significance ta people of the Boulb hud West It marks the end of the first century ol ibe date of Tennessee ana tile close of Ibo first year of lie second century Zint buudrcd and one years ago this elate was admitted Into the union no sixteenth member mem-ber In I the great family of American I commonwelLittilL It Was R WOOD a addition to the national I household I house-hold a community t young strong and sturdy with an bouorej and heroic I auceatry vlib fond anticipations not only 01 the founders but faltn In I Its aucceia on the part of farseeing and sagacious stalenmen in all parts of the country 110 JuillDcil In Baying that faces alllclplllon have been era adly reallzsU that the vreent of Ih cOlOrouully of sterling worth is I even brighter than prolI 01 the Past had dared lo loreott U The bull jets of me BQIU who had forced their way through the trackless forests tblasplendid domalnbrougbt with them tile same high ideal and Itarlets IInolioD to borne mud ounlry founded ou resistance to oppression which have made illustrious the An lilo American name Whelner It was ibo territory ol Virgin or that ol North Carolina m < ttered little to them They camo willing aud eager 10 fight for ludepeuUenoe and liberty and lu the war of tile revolution were cyst loyal to the otatioard 01 Washing too When their repreeenlatlvea served In Ibo OJloufai assembly of North Carolina they chose for tile Ural time lu cur country BJ far 0 t know the great umol WehlOIl tOil as Ibo home 01 tire district 10 which they lived and at the close I of Ibo revolution mugbt to 01 gentle Ibelr country Into I a stat 10 be Ioown no I he atl or 1 Fraakllo In grateful homage ot another of Its moat dltlinpulsbe patriots Spain had sought tu poof ess their territory by fight po-of discovery as a port 01 Florida France claimed it by right of cenlon against part of Louisiana and again as hers conquest But neither contention could lot an In giant be reojgulzid Moved by the highest luIIDCI or seltgoveriament and the loltlest inottves patriotism under gallant old done tievlor at Klu a Mountain your forcfatbers bravely vindicated their honor and gloriously won their Independence Thus came Ibe new state atoond only satirical the now mighty West and Southwest And It baa made a wonderful history for Itself Tourist see has sometimes been called the in 0 0I8ulbwIrn statesmen It furnished us the Journalist Jackson whose record In war and whose aJ ministration In peace as the head ol Ibo great republic euloes on with Ibo advancing Yu The century has only added lo the luster of his name increased the obligation of his countrymen coun-trymen and exalted him In their aUccllou Polls and Johnson alto were product of this grot state and many more heroes ot distinguished deeds whom names will oomc unbidden unbid-den to your memories while 1 speak Tennesseeana have ever been volunteers volun-teers not dratted patriots In 1849 when 2400 soldiers ware called lor 30000 loyal Teuncssseana oQered their nlcd amid the trials and terrors of the great civil worundr conditions ol peculiar distress and embarrassment bar people divided on contending side But upon whichever Blue found they fought fearlessly lo death and gallant sacrifice Now happily there are no contending sides lu thin glorious commonwealth or In I any part of our common country Thu men who op paired each other in dreadful battle u third of a century ago are onco more and forever united together under one dig In a nevertolebroken Uulou The glory 01 Tennessee la not alone In the orllllI names It haa contrib into 10 IIItoIY or the heroic patriotism displayed by Ibo people luu I many crloeo 01 our national Illeg but it Julius IIltl wealth nuclei allvacut slid population are Bulking Bud sign Weaut lu their growth and development rhlrtyflve thousand settlers In this state in 1790 bad Increased to 1109 OUUlu 19U aud today It hag a pjpula llou ckeeiy SPIDOXIM a title 20011000 Its Dianufacturea which In 1BI10 were very small Bud uulrnporiaot In 1600 bad reached 17 000000 In I value while lie farm iroduota now aggregate morn than 102000000 annually an-nually IU river commmca oj three groat International water ways Its splendid railways operating nearly three thousand mllea of roads Us mineral vroilth or Incalculable TAU U form a aplendld augury for Ibo future I am sure no better workmen could be found than the people ol Tennessee to turn these confident promise into grand realUles Yur exuslll3n shows better than a ny u rJi el mine can tell the details ol 1 ui wealth otreaourtie and power 0111 uCllu Yyu bv Ilou whely In exhibiting these to your own people Doll your sister slater and DO time OiUlJ the display be more effective Than lOW when what Ibo coue try acid mule Men all else to lentored o > lldtncen 1 Urill llil 1 1 txtosltlou deniotiBlialca directly y ur lallb anti lUrposennu I liyf < lu tile vUctt seapeyour true and unfailing belief In tip Irrcpiesaibre pluck of Ibo American people and Is t a iroinisluk Indication of the return of American I sprrlty Tllo ki owledgo which this beautiful and novel exposition Rivet will solely stimulate comielltloo develop de-velop your finite Increieeyour intput enlarKe your fields 01 11loymeul extend your markeia mud no eventually eventual-ly pay lor all It cost SB wll at justify local scullmeol and entourage stale pride lien and women I eec abnut mo rom all parts ul I the uutry and Ibouttnda t more will ativuible here before Ibe sxpcsltlon Is doted Lot ourstlvet and lei them alwnya remember remem-ber that whalevti1 Qglencca about loHtlcs may have existed or still ex M in I 1 wo are ullll Americans before a are pirtltana and value th welfare ot 1 lue people above any or section Clt zina of different States yet we Jove all the Blute The Lesson of the hour Ibeu la I fillet that whatever adverse co dilloDB may tiniporanly Imotde Ihe pathway of our national urogreir nothing can permautnlly lefet I |