WILLIAM MCKINLEY.

From a Photograph, “which was always considered by the President and his Friends, to be the best that had ever been made of him."

SPECIAL PORTRAIT AND SUPPLEMENT.

President William McKinley's

LAST PUBLIC ORATION

DELIVERED AT

THE PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION

BUFFALO, N. Y., SEPTEMBER 5th, 1901.

"President Milburn, Director-General Buchanan, Commissioners, Ladies and Gentlemen:-I am glad to be again in the City of Buffalo and exchange greetings with her people, to whose generous hospitality I am not a stranger, and with whose goodwill I have been repeatedly and signally honored.

"To-day I have additional satisfaction in meeting and giving welcome to the foreign representatives assembled here, whose presence and participation in this Exposition have contributed in so marked a degree to its interests and success. To the commissioners of the Dominion of Canada and the British Colonies, the French Colonies, the republics of Mexico and of Central and South America. and the commissioners of Cuba and Porto Rico, who share with us in this undertaking, we give the hand of fellowship and felicitate with them upon the triumphs of art, science, education and manufacture which the old has bequeathed to the new century.

"Expositions are the timekeepers of progress. They record the world's advancement. They stimulate the energy, enterprise and intellect of the people and quicken human genius. They go