The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-07-23
THE CENTENNIAL SHOW.
An apOTHEOSTS OF FALSE ID0LS
WHICH ARE A DELUSION.
oar Century of Progress Not as satisfac-
tory ~ IL Might Have nccn.
From the Church Journal.l

From the Church Journal
The Centennial celebration at Philadelphia,
notwithstanding. AL the expenditure upon "
and the use Of all the advertising, and the use oi
all the usual means to get W an excitement.
IL turning out. as we are told. a disappointment
There re d something. we confcse, very hopeful
IN thie. The whole conception of the philadel-
mia exhibition was In the worst possible taste
II WAS conceived in spirit of brag, and brought
forih In n epi,it of bluster and brag has be-
come very foolish Of late. and buster very dis
e The Centennial was in no sense from the first
the expression OF the peoples feeling. Nothing
perhaps could have been more against grow
Ing and deep sentiment of the better class OF our
Thai we have made great material progress
during century, there is no doubt The world ,T
We have h ad q very rich country 70 muddle aad
muas over, everybody knows. That we began
ihe business with all the world to help u.s. ald
eend us labor, skill tools and capital 70 gene
rally understood. That from three millions we
have become partially by natural Increase OF
the three millions but Tar m ;,, ny me coming
loo That we have built great many cities in
great hurry. in very shamming sort o. style
ess se dirt depravity, drunkenness and poverty
is very true. That We have made large mum,
Der OF steam engines. and 2 great many niles OF
riea, and produced the usual factory popula-
ton; that we have. In short, done IN all these
hps w se vi ay w ar che n wesa know
hut IL ai ,b,s what ,s there To prar aboutY Are
these things. 30 queer and strange and semi
miraculous that all the world should come TO sec
them and that NO ourselves should shout our
selves hoarsef
me world has not been astonished BIT at the
baa indeed troubled itself very little about It.
None Of the European magnates, crowned or
sinss apniy The Emperor of brazil. our neigh
kors maid The ehow "A living visit and like n
sensible man. went immediately about his own
And the careleseness about the business among
Eurepeans il aim IT eoualed by the careless
nasa amnnf q ourselyes
Wa nav ali this il n most hopeful sign of the
times One can really take a little satisfaction In
hie country and hia race
W. haiiave Ii was the late Prince Albert who
x.ss~yx,n raiypd the notion of n big fair 10 which
All the world should come aud show its loaomo
tises. clothes wringers and sewing machines. 1t
wns 4 great success II was believed we were
nhrut entering on an era of engines clothes
wrinrera nd sewing machines but henceforth
among ,he natopa tbe only struggle would be e
wrinrers. The most and the hes. machines. II
Was tie grand aputhcosis of machinery and in.
Iustrfal rroductss--of cabinet ware. crockery
And tin mans. Here In the Crystal Palace
said the civilized world. is Great Babylon which
| have buided.' The millennium was come,
he new gods!
while The show was held the mutterings Of the
storm that beloved across the Orimsa around
the Keiau the Nalakofr and tho bloody heights
III Inkernan- already IN the air. Two
wears only and the foolish dream, Of n FOOLS
anpaae q !, he mouth va"
Rut the fashion set was followed, and France
and America, even Austria and Canada, must
the old worshipi To the Crimea succeeded Ma
dewa and solierino, the civil war in America
with Us half lion corpsce. and Prussia pour
ing herself in fury on Napo leonized France.
The millennium of the clothes wringcr and the
cotton mill had moi yet come
And with the disappointment came a sort of
contemnt far the gods that had misled the world.
The nations began first to d thrust them. and
then to examine their pretentons to be gods at
ALL II seemed rather that the iron clad and the
forty-ton gun were to be the ruling powers
With a possible European war muttering about
Constantinople, 4 seems somewhat so yet
ness came ia naurht The attempt In Austria
three summers ago was an absolute failure
minds that machinery and manufactures are
not the worlds masters. nor an exhibition of
them the loftiest exercise of the human intellect.
But Amerieans while leading the world i'm
some things are apt TO be behind II in Others
very far behind indeed i'm some When there
fore The thirteen original States became a CEN
fury old II seemed 10 the lights of our ciytiiza-
lion. that we could proclaim the fact to spheres
in no WAY SO effectually and appropriately as 60
bring together into one place. even the place
where they signed the Declaration of Indenend-
cnre in l77e. specimens of ali our machinery
and manufactures. in fact the contents of the
pafenf Office at Washington and call upon ali
the world Ia come and admire,
Alaai in the midst of the preparation for the
xvords asteniahmenf and admiration came
'sinvasfication stalking with relentless foot
among the successors of the heroes of ne and
repuiations we're wrecked like card board
houses in n hurricane The world was as
fonishad certainly buf in q way we had not ex
naried onr hundredfh anniversary showed
knroeresss certainly. vast progress IRON Wash.
instrn Franklin Hamilton 10 ----i
FL there we're any niaea where an anxious
world ronld ffx its eyes in hone But we have To
snnfcss 10 the world there Is no noint for even
orr familiar eyes to find rest The corruption
III public life il the counterpart of the corrup-
lion In nriyate There is no civilized land where
iife and nrnnerty are so insarure There are
more murders In pronortion to nopulation IN
Tho United States than in any known country
Tho nretanse even Mt puniShinp them has
ceased ana what with polvrpmy In Utah seven
hundred divorces in n year In Chicago and mon
MARRYING their wives daughters in Massachu-
seffs fhr world NAV ask whether there II any
thing men used 10 care for a hundred wears ago
now seriously protected In the United Stat 4