STATE DAY, MAY 2, 1903.

The civic parade assembled at 10.30 a.m. under direction of Col.  Eugene J. Spencer, marshal of the day, and moved from the junction of Grand avenue and Lindell boulevard through Forest Park to the exposition grounds, where the parade was reviewed by the governors of the States.

At 1.30 p. m. the audience assembled in the Liberal Arts Building.  The assembly was called to order by Mr. William H. Thompson, chairman of the committee on grounds and buildings, and the following programme was carried out: 

First.  Invocation by Rev. William R. Harper: 

Our Father which art in Heaven, whose work for man no man knows, whose heart is full of wisdom, to Thee be our prayers directed.  Hallowed be Thy name.  Thou art the pure and the very great.  May Thy peace be manifested to us in all Thy work.

Give us this day our daily bread, and for the following day.  Forgive us our sins, as well as forgive them that sin against us.  Take away all hatred and strife and whatever prejudice may hinder us from union and concord.  Let us be under one bond of faith and peace.

Show us Thy kindness and so fill us with Thy goodness that our souls may be filled with the manifold delights of charity and good will.  Let nations abide under Thy law, for Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory.  Amen.

Second.  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.