Gentlemen of the Exposition management, I thank you sincerely for the kind invitation you gave me to inspect this wonderful exhibit. People of Kansas City, I salute you, and acknowledge with gratitude, the cordial and generous reception you have given me. Fellow-citizens of Kansas, I know you will enjoy your visit to the Exposition, and I am assured that its officers and all the people of Kansas City are glad to greet and to welcome you. And now, fervently hoping that the future may bring returns of a fruitful harvest to the originators and managers of this great enterprise, and that the Exposition may increase in interest and importance year after year, I bid you, one and all, good-bye. THE FARMERS’ PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION. Address delivered at the annual meeting of the Farmers’ Protective Association, held at Atchison, February 7th, 1888. MR. CHAIRMAN: When I was visited, a few days ago, by a committee of Atchison county farmers, and requested to welcome the members of this Association to my home, I very cheerfully assented. I was glad to gratify my old neighbors and friends, and, in their name, bid their fellow-members of the Protective Associative a cordial welcome to Atchison. I knew that their greeting, their reception, their hospitality, would supplement and emphasize my words, and so, if I should fail in fairly expressing the pleasure they feel in having you for their guests, their kindliness and generosity would atone for my failure. I greet and welcome you, therefore, in the full assurance that your brief sojourn here will be made enjoyable by all the gracious courtesies that inspire generous hearts, and that you will return to your homes carrying with you only pleasant memories of your visit to Atchison, and of the hospitality of your hosts, the members of the Atchison county branch of your organization.