New-York tribune., 1874-03-07
TIE CENTENNIAh
UNFAyoRABLE PUBLIC SENTIMENT.

IL we are TO have an exposition OF our arts
us and that will giye fair chance 10 compare our
productions with those OF oher nations va" como 70
compete with us.-lLoulsville Courier-JvurnA.
If it comes to q question between immediate
Abandonment and the Appropriation Of eight 10 zen
millions from the National Treasury, as now seems 10
be the case, believe the people VIII unLcsitaungy
declare for the former.-l Albany Evening Journal.
1t is becoming more and more obvious daily
that national ana not an international celebration ~
Centennial ia what lfdemsnded by the majority Of
mako the celebration international viii result IN lire
aud disastrous fslure.lN. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
The exhibition can be made success and in
every interesting and appropriate by contning 10
% our home products. industrial end artistic. l. would
then show the progress the country has made ouung
the last hundred year., and would be thoroughly ma
,ional and appropriate to the occasiVn.- New Haven
Palladium.
1t is entirely fitting and proper that the
American people SHOULD celebrate their hunGJeoll oft
day IN glorious and patriotic manner ana ~ iaao ns
i of course the proper place to do IT, But the cerbra
ton should domestic one. national and not an iu
ternatOna affair." Let IL be made simply a grand Amcu
can oeebratOn.-t indianapolis journal
There is an opportunity given to us, not
lightly to be diGTegarded OF bringing the forcee O M
ODa history to boar upon tue present Character o. our
national life. If the comparisons Instituted MAKE us
sometimes uncomfortable, there VIII Dc enough yipor
ing and self-g9tUatOn u proven! anytllnE axe ma
uOnal melancholy Boston Advertiser.
If ID were indeed practicable to have such
International reunion the President describes. an
apuropriati0n BY Congress would be- wholly uni Is
6aDe But success In such an undertaking IS beyond
the bounds of possibility for our national greatness
does moi consist i'm that featuring excellence which
makes such exhibition attractive.-l3uiLAo Courier
To tax forty millions of people for big
show which only one million at the turtbest are likely
20 Witness hardly the best way to illustrate mat gras
principle 1T7G-no taxation without representation
Grant thinks success be attained by aroanS tho
people but his only means 20 arouse the people Is for
Congress appropriate their money-lSasAgie Union
and American.
An international exposition to celebrate the
centennial anniversary Of our naiOn mistake. Only
national exposition BELTS that object. II a national
exposition be sufficient celebrate the nations
tennia then the thing should be stan ed It's infancy,
as President Grant says. lnasmuch the projectors
have decided that nothing short Of an international
exposition can ftly celebrate national prOgrs the
srangiug conclusion seems to be iOreSOne-lC Cincinnati
Gazette.
On the Centennial anniversary of our inde-
peudence might be pleasant for people make
pilgrimage the little old State House in Philadelphia
where the linal enacted Yhicn made free.
But unfortunately that temple has become den or
thieves. No man can enter it to-day, knowing what
caba occupies it, without feeling that PhiadeYh Yhia has
sacrificed completely all clam to distinction wnlon it
may once have had. Not there then should our Con
tennial be celeDrIted.-t u lea Observer