, 1873-02-16

| As far ns it has gone, the United States has
made arrangements for very croditablo repre-
sentation of its diverse products at the forth
coming Vienna Exposition. The manufacturers
| ss1n exhibit their mowing-machines, sewing Una
chimes, steam-engines. and, in fact, an immense
variety OF machines, embracing everything from
4 locomotive to an apple-parer. The agricul-
turists will show their fruits and cereals. Tho
geologsts will rorel in displays OF ores and min
erals. The goographers hare mado choice col
lection OF maps and photographs. The school
teachers have been busly engaged in arranging
! their department so US to impress the whole
| world With the high standard OF our educa-
| tional resources and systems, and, in order
to do this, have accumulated models
! Of school-kouses, schoo1-books by tho ton,
echool-furnituro, and educational Statistics by
the mile. One genius Is busy in collecting
| samples Of all the newspapers in the United
States, including both SECULAR and Religious
dailies and wcek1ies, the monthly and quarterly
periodicals, and oycn the catchponny advertising
publications Of quacks and dealers in nostrums,
| Another genius has conceived the idea OF OK
| hibiting tho plans and ornamentations Of grave
yards, showing ut glance the superior manner
in which We care for our dead. AL these repro
sentations are well enough in their why, and will
subserve Useful purpose in acquaintipg the
Khediye Of Egypt, the Shah Of Pe1sia, tho Bcy
Of Tunis, the King Of tho Cannibal Islands,
and other distinguished visitors to Wen
na, with the status and progress Of
cultural, scientific, aud educational growth Of
the United States, and will also undoubtedly
mako those allow paced Or1entals, as we'll as some
OF the Occidentals, open their eyes with aston
gladden the hearts Of tho chiffoniers OF Vienna,
and will be Of service to the paners of Vienncae
ladies. But nearly Ill this information can bo
obtained from books and statistics which ere al-
ways accessible to those strangely
diyiduals who eau resolve facts out OF figures,
and take IN interest in tables, exhibits, and
statements, What the people Of Vienna and
tho rest of the world want to know moro particu-
larly is our manner and mode Of conducting the
Government with reference to the public needs,
and wherein wo do things better than they by
those cheap and labor-saving methods which To-
suit from the ski1fulness and ingenuity OF the
universal Yankee nation. In such points ua
these our representation will be lamentably do
as thero has never been time before, and may
never be again, when tile material has been
more plenty or the occasion more oppurtune
for showing those people something to their
advantage.
First, and foremost OF all, our Government
should have made its arrangements to exhibit to
the efreto Governments of Europe the manner in
which legislation may be procured by great
corporations. Oakes Ames shonld hare
been detailed Us Special Commissioner Of this
department. With the aid Of fac sinsi}e stocks
and bonds, a slate and pencil, and the little red
memorandum-book. Oakes A1nes could have
exhibited to foreign potentates and capitalists
how legislators can bug stock without paying
dem onstratc to anicety justhow far the powers Of
trusteeehip can be stretched. This department
could hare bocn made extremely interesting
also, in a pictorial way, by weI-e1ecuted pic
lures OF Colfa1, Brooks, Patterson, Bingham,
Alley, and others who have had experience in
this sort of legislation. The railroad progress
Of the United States has always created astouish-
mcnt in Europe, andhere was another opportunity
which we are astoniehed to find has not been |
improved. While We have made ample prepare
tions to show our agricultural and mechanical
products, which the railroads hnra to transport,
and hayo even shipped over to Vienna specimens !
Of locomotives. tenders, frojght-cars, sleeping !
cars, and models Of depots, no one has thought |
Of showing Europe how We build railroads. |
This might have been accomplished with 40 little |
trouble and expense, that We wonder it was not.
done at the very outset. A neat little working |
model Of the Credit Mobilier.-simply wheel /
within wheel, tho ono wheel supplying the
motive power, tie other wheel con-
veying the products lin this case, stock and caeh !
diyidends) into hopper for the benefit Of the
propEietors Of the machine,-would have given
foreigners general idea Of Union Pacific
Durant might have been ap-
pointed Special Commissioner in this depart
ment, and explained the detailed working OF
tho machine, showing how donations OF money
and land may be obtained from the Government;
then how hostile legislation may be guarded
against; then how the Ring may obtain the
contracts for building tho read by having
them reasaigned to them by other contrac-
tors; then how the Government can be made
10 assume tho liabilities OF the corporation
and, like an indn1gens parent not ask for inter-
est; and finally, after having assured all these
things, how the Ring can pocket ni1lions by
lrawing S50o00 per mile, which only cost s25, 900
% build, and the same amount for great many
niles already built and paid for. Such inform2-
ion as this would have teen valuable, and such
n exhibit would hare been regarded with more