The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-21
THURSDAY, JUNE 2l, 1866.
The Paris Industrial Exhibition.

WE do not see why the bill providing for
proper representation Of our country in the
Paris Exhibition OF the Industry of all Nations
should encounter such persistent opposition as
it has met with from portion OF Congress. 1t
was up in the House of Representatives yes
terday, having been returned from the Senate
with amendments, when Mr.. WAsHBURNE, Of
Illinois, attempted to kill it by tacking on a
proviso that the appropriation should not be
used until the French troops had evacuated
Mexico. Mr.. BANKS very properly replied thai
this question and the Mexican question had no
connection whatever, and should therefore be
considered separately and upon their own
merits. The House concurred with Mr.. BANKS,
and, upon his motion, the senate's amendments
were not agreed to, and a Committee of Confer
ence was asked for.
As we have already remarked, we do not see
why this measure should be so bitterly opposed.
These fairs for the exhibition of the products of
the industry and skill of all nations are not
new thing. Several of them have already been
held-one of which was in our own country
and their effects are undoubtedly of desirable
character They bring together people from all
parts of the world, on a peaceful and enlight.
ened mission. They serve to break down those
barriers which separate the nations of the earth.
They stimulate skill and industry by the display
of the best products of the worlds best workers.
They open new avenues to commerce by intro
ducing new articles of trade to the notice Of
various nations. They call attention to the varied
resources of different countries, and thus stimu-
late emigration from overcrowded and ily-paid
fields of labor to newer and more remunerative
regions. They tend to break up local exclusive
a -
ternational comfy and respect In short, they
serve to weaken the selfish ties of class, country,
and race. and to foster the nobler feelings of the
brotherhood of all nations
That our country will have Some sort Of a
representation at the Paris Exhibition is GER
tain; the only question is, whether it shall be
such an one as will do us credit and place the
industry and resources OF our vast domain fairly
before the eyes of the world. If the matter is
left to private enterprise we shall certainly fail.
The magnitude OF the undertaking is too much
for the resources of individuals. In former ex-
hibltions, our countrymen have been mortified
at the meagre showing made by their native
land-not, surely, from any want of material
and resources, bus because no adequate provi-
sion had been made to secure fair representa-
ton of them. We trust it will not be so az the
Paris Exhibition.
1t is of the highest national Importance that
our country should be we'll represented in this
great fair One of our chief elements of gro with
and development is the constant accession that
we are receiving from the populations of the
Old World. European immigrants not only
bring us labor, but they also bring us gold
The more full and complete, therefore, we can
make the American department in the Paris
Exhibition, the more shall we impress the great
ness and abundance of our resources upon the
minds of the tens of thousands who, from every
quarter of Europe, will throng this great fair.
Another important consideration is the open
ing of new markets for many of our manufac-
tures. The United States make the best agri-
cultural implements in the world. Our mowers,
reapers, threshers, ploughs, harrows, cultivators
ETC., are far superior to those in use in Europe.
So of many other branches of manufactures.
An exhibition such as we are capa BILE of making,
and which would correctly represent our indus.
tIy in these respects, could not fail to introduce
our products into many new regions, and to
increase greatly the demand which already
exists for them.
In every point of view, therefore, it seems to
us highly desirable that Congress should make
a liberal provision for securing such repre-
sentation of American industry and resources in
the Paris Exhibition as will do justice to the
country; and we think G General BANKS deserves
the thanks of the people for the able and sue.
cessful manner in which he has championed
this important measure.