The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-30
The Vienna Worlds Fair and Its
Industrial and Political influence.

Industrial and Political influence.
Public attention is more and more directed
to the great Worlds Exhibition which is to
be opened at Vienna on the LIST of next May,
three months from this time 1t is to be, evil
IDENTIFY, what its name implies-a universal ex-
position of the products. manufactures, sci
ence and arts of all nations. The news we
are receiving from day to day shows the in
terest the rulers of the earth, as well as the
people, are taking in the grand event We
learn through our cable kilograms that the
Prince Of Wales, who is President of the
British Commission, will be at the opening of
the Exposition; that the Shah of Persia, who
has resolved to visit Europe, will be there; as
also the Emperor William of Germany at the
end of May, and will, it is said, 60 to Vienna
in company with the Emperor Alexander of
Russia. 1t is reported also that Prince Mich
olas, the Hospodar of Montenegro, is pre-
pairing to attend. Then we have been
informed that the Sultan of Turkey con-
templates not only visit to Vienna
but staying there a short time, for he has
had palace erected for his accommoda-
ton near the grand building for the Exposition,
and has sent from Constantinople the Fountain
of Mohammed to be placed in the grounds
surrounding the Palace of Industry. Another
Mohammedan ruler, the Viceroy of Egypt, has
erected palace for his convenience on the
adjoining grounds, which, at the close of the
Exhibition, he intends to convert into o
mosque. The Emperor Francis Joseph has
had erected for himself fine pavilion and
several German princes have followed his
example. 1t is probable, too, that the King of
Italy and other sovereigns and princes will
attend. There will be- perhaps, greater
gathering of the rulers of the earth than was
ever witnessed before We should like to
know if the venerable Chief of the Triple Crown,
| Pope Plus, will honor the Exhibition by his
presence. As all the great chiefs and statesmen
will meet there on the peace platform of
industrial development and progress and will
for the time, we suppose, lay aside their
rivalries and animosites, would it not be
grand and fitting occasion for the venerable
Pontiff to make the opening prayer for this
! Universal Exhibition? We throw out the hint
and suggest that he be invited to perform
that service We know nothing that would
tend more to exalt and popularize the head of
the Catholic Church.
We have no idea that this coming together
of the potentates and ruling statesmen of Eu-
rope will cause those of Russia, Germany or
of any other great nation to forego their fixed
policy of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. National or dy-
nastic ambition is not to be checked SO easily
But it may tend to preserve the peace of the
world, for time, at least Meeting on such
an occasion the usual diplomatic reserve and
mode of intercourse may be relaxed. In
trigues may give place to frankness under
such genial and peaceful circumstances. A
freer interchange of thoughts and views
may be the result misconceptions be
removed, and, as consequence more
hope of peace and international harmony
be inspired. Nor can these rulers fail to no.
tice the growing power and Importance Of the
industrial developments of the age, or to recog-
nize the increasing power and value Of the in
dustrious classes, the manifold works of
which at Vienna they will assemble to honor.
This Exposition will have the effect of bring
ing the people and their meritorious works
nearer to the rulers, and Of teaching the latter
to appreciate more the former. While we do
not expect to see the swords, firearms and can
non, of which there will be plenty of models
at Vienna, turned into ploughshares as con-
sequence of this Exhibition, there is reason to
believe the vast aggregation of industrial skill
and labor, which must be suggestive of the
superiority of commerce and its conquests
over war, will have good effect upon the
minds of those who have been too apt to think
war the chief means of gratifying national am
bition. In political and international point
of view, then, the Vienna Exposition is likely
to produce good results.
But the question that concerns the American
people more Immediately is as to how far their
industry and products will be represented.
Here we have nation of forty millions of
people, next only to Russia in population
among the nations that are classed as civilized,
and considering the semi-barbaric condition
of part of the people under Russian do
minion, really the most populous of civilized
nations in the world More than that, this
Republic is far In advance of the most civilized
country in Europe in essentially material
development in social well-being in inventive
appliances for material progress, and in the
general elevation Of the masses. If civiliza-
ton and progress are to be considered as con-
sisting in abundant production, the well-bcing
and happiness of the mass of the people, the
application of science and art to the saving of
labor and increase Of wealth, in the education
and elevation of the laboring majority
in political equality and opportunities
for all classes alike, then the United
States is the most civilized of all
countries. But how is this to be repre-
sented at the Vienna Worlds Fair? Some Of
this progress and development may be repre-
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