Address by Mr. William Lindsay, of the National Commission,
president of the day, as follows:

MR. PRESIDENT AND LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: This is the last day of
the interesting and memorable ceremonies with which the great
exposition has been inaugurated. We have had with us the chief
representative of the people. The next day we had with us the
diplomats, the representatives of foreign climes. To-day we have
with us the toilers. We have had the governors of the sovereign
States which make up this great Union. When I beheld the great
cavalcade I felt that the time had almost come when the
industries will solely be confined to working for peace and
divorced from devotion to the implements of war.

It is not merely a question of a fair profit upon money that is
uppermost before the people to-day. It is not the question of a
fair return for labor. But it is the question of equitable
distribution of the products of labor and of the surplus of
capital. This is the great question; that is what involves the
happiness of mankind, and the man who solves that question will
rise in greatness to such a point that other statesmen, or even
Presidents, will pale into insignificance.

This is labor day, and as such we should honor it.

And the governors. We had governors before ever we had a
President. Each State represents yet a great residuum of power.
In the hands of State are the life and liberty of the people. We
must remember that the governors, representing the unit of the
national power, have the first place in national precedence.

There is on the right of me the governor of the great Empire
State of the Atlantic. There is on the left of me the governor
of the great Empire State of the Louisiana Purchase. I need not
introduce to you the governor of Missouri, but it is upon the
programme, and hence I will say the words--I beg to introduce
Governor A.M. Dockery, who will now address you.

Third. Address of welcome by Hon. A.M. Dockery, governor of Missouri, as
follows:

The pleasing duty devolves upon me of extending a cordial
greeting in behalf of the people of Missouri to you as the chief
magistrates and representatives of sister States, who come with
kindly messages and substantial evidence of the nation's
interest in our stupendous undertaking. The work already
completed and