The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-08-19
Amerlca ~ the Vienna Worlds
Fair-Our Prizes and Our Progress
The American Centennial.

Tho American Centennial.
In another portion of the HERALD of this
day will be found complete list of the Amer
lean exhibitors who have obtained prizes or
medals at the Vienna Worlds Fair. In hav-
ing these awards transmitted by special cable
despatch to the HERALD we have thought that
the enterprise of great newspaper could be
put to no greater service than fastening to our
national industrial community tidings of the
honors which have been fairly won in the use
full arts in peaceful contest with the civil
lied nations of the world. However
powerful we may be otherwise as a nation,
however inspiring may be the example OF
our popular government to the peoples OF
Europe in the industrial force and genius OF
our nation will be found that on which, above
all, we must bring our power to its true test.
The awards for merit, for progress won in the
land of the Kaiser, have greater significance
for us than for any other people in the world.
Represented by their exhibitors, the old, old
countries of Europe were there with their
cumulative wealth and experience the coun-
tries old in years, but gifted with what
seems perennial youth and vigor, such
as England, France and Germany, were there;
the countries hoary with conservative Asiatic
civilization were there and beside them the
young republican giant of the West stood to
wrestle for the palm of precedence in the arts
of peace that ennoble mankind beyond the
parchment, power of kings and bring life in
the aggregate towards its acme of mutual use
C,l,. o~I -, &c of hoo,
would be out of place here to discuss the con-
catenation Of unfortunate circumstances by
which the display Of the United States was
made to suffer and which so contrived to de-
preciate us at the start in the eyes of the
world. We must turn for our consolation to
the solid array of brilliant triumphs which
| our inventions, our constructions, our manu-
features, our educational system-in word,
our civilization brings us from the great
Worlds Fair by the banks of the Danube.
There, in the ten grand diplomas Of honor,
in the medals for the various classes adjudged
to America, we find something to crush and
! cover out Of sight the pitiful misman-
agement, contumacy or worse which
panied the nation when the gates of the
Exposition were flung open at the Kaiser s
bidding only to find the American department
closed This national justification, this Union
victory over huge odds, we deem well worthy
the labor and cost of laying through the col
umns of the HERALD before the American
people as soon as the battle was gained the
awards made
AS we have already announced through the
HERALD specials from Vienna the awards were
finally concluded on as promised yesterday.
The official PRONUNCIATION thereof in the Aus
TRAN capital will be made to-day. BY stroke
of HERALD enterprise we are. therefore, en-
abled to ley them in full before our readers on
the same day they are published in Vienna.
The interest attaching to them will be felt in
every village of our land. TO every
class and grade of industry the HERALD
special from Vienna will be of live value. The
inventor will pause from his brain work and
his models to see how his ingenuity or his
genius is recognized the manufacturer will
scan the list of favored ones with eager eyes
to find if the name of his firm figures
| in the list of honor; the planter in the
| South will rejoice to find how his cotton
is "king' in Kaiserland; the farmer in the
glorious West will rub the rich soil from the
nameplate Of his reaper to see if truly the
machine that lays low the golden corn, spring
ing where 30 lately the red men wheeled their
horses in savage fight, bears the name that
moved down oil pretensions to rivalry where
q thousand years ago the old German Empire
placed its outer bulwark against the
barbarians; the citizen of the Golden State
will be proud to learn that California vies
with China in her silk cocoons; the sturdy
| Pennsylvania iron.worker will "unbend his
ponderous strength and lean to hear" how his
State stands out in the ''iron age;" the working
girl and the housewife will smile to know that
their sewing machines have won medal; the
tried workman Of every trade will read him
self or ask his neighbor how Jared his craft in
the world struggle for the palm in solid work.
| The interest will heighten as the awards are
discussed in the blunt but clear-headed way
that the skilled in all professions, businesses
and trades deal with the things of their speci-
atty. Few struggles in the Old Wcrld, yhere
the embattled hosts Of mighty nations were
engaged in bloody conflict, could evoke
1.-THE of the sympathetic comment that the
fair, plain list of our industrial garlands will
call forth. No list of princely or plebeian
missing" in European battle could cause
such keen anxiety as those whose names
are not enrolled in the HERALD's pages to-day.
The very limit to the prizes, by the side of
what our possibilities in the future are, will
cause many man Of thought to take the les
son of this Exhibition to heart in q manner
which we should be glad to see impress itself
on the entire people. In merely beholding
the contest between the nations we
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