I very gladly, therefore, comply with their request, that I should formally open this festival. It is a beautiful display of flowers—creditable alike to the ladies whose skill and taste and enterprise devised and arranged it, and to the city in which it is held. And now, speaking for them, I bid you one and all welcome, and declare the flower show formally opened.
DEDICATION OF SNOW HALL.
Address at the dedication of “Snow Hall,” State University, Lawrence, November 16th, 1886.
Mr. Chairman: In the stirring poem read by our Kansas poet, Eugene F. Ware, at the Quarter-Centennial, it is said:
“States are not great
Except as men may make them.
Men are not great except they do and dare.
But States, like men,
Have destinies that take them—
That bear them on, not knowing why or where.”