of city, State, and nation, in the management of our home life and conduct of our business and social relations, we are bound to show certain high and fine qualities of character under penalty of seeing the whole heart of our civilization eaten out while the body still lives.

We justly pride ourselves on our marvelous material prosperity, and such prosperity must exist in order to establish a foundation upon which a higher life can be built; but unless we do in very fact build this higher life thereon, the material prosperity itself will go but for very little.  Now, in 1903, in the altered conditions, we must meet the changed and changing problems with the spirit shown by the men who in 1803 and in subsequent years, gained, explored, conquered, and settled this vast territory, then a desert, now filled with thriving and populous States.

The old days were great because the men who lived in them had mighty qualities; and we must make the new days great by showing the same qualities.  We must insist upon courage and resolution, upon hardihood, tenacity, and fertility in resource; we must insist upon the strong virile virtues; and we must insist no less upon the virtues of self-restraint, self-mastery, regard for the rights of others; we must show our abhorrence of cruelty, brutality, and corruption, in public and private life alike.

If we come short in any of these qualities we shall measurably fail; and if, as I believe we surely shall, we develop these qualities in the future to an even greater degree than in the past, then in the century now beginning we shall make of this Republic the freest and most orderly, the most just and most mighty nation which has ever come forth from the womb of time.

Sixth.  Grand chorus:  “Unfold Ye Portals.”

Seventh.  Address by Hon. Grover Cleveland: 

MR. PRESIDENT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:  The impressiveness of this occasion is greatly enhanced by reason of an atmosphere of prophecy’s fulfillment which surrounds it.  The thought is in our minds that we are amid awe-inspiring surroundings, where we may see and feel things foretold a century ago.  We are here in recognition of the one hundredth anniversary of an event which doubled the area of the young American nation, and dedicated a new and wide domain of American progress and achievement.  The treaty whose completion we to-day commemorate was itself a prophecy of our youthful nation’s mighty growth and development.  At its birth prophets in waiting joyously foretold the happiness which its future promised.  He who was the chief actor in the United States in its negotiations, as he signed the perfected instrument, thus declared its effect and far-reaching consequences:  “The instrument which we have just signed will cause no tears to be shed.  It prepares ages of happiness for innumerable generations of human creatures.  The Mississippi and the Missouri