The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-09-06

not have u great deal to fear
from American rivals. But when she
learns to trust entirely to her own
splendid national resources the great genius
of her people marvellous proficiency in the
adoption of labor saving contrivances in
which they are ahead Of the whole world,
America will be formidable competitor,
But what you have now to contend against
is not competition with America, but limta-
ton of markets. You are met on every
side with hostile tariffs, and you want to
bound over these tariffs and get within
them. Well, for that purpose the British
producer must consider the solidity of this
work and its homely qualities, and endevor
to make it, in the first place, true work, not
protesting to be anything but what it is, to
divcst it of.all falsehood and sham; for,
however the impositure may last for little
while, the effect is ultimately to destroy the
reputation, to take away confidence, and to
react most injuriously upon those who have
attempted the trick"
Again, when dwelling upon the immense
advantage in the market of beauty of
naked utility, he assured his hearers that
there was "no beauty in America. l have
been speaking of Americans, with whom l
trust we shall always continue in peace
and in bonds of brotherhood; and if you
take the industrial productions of America,
l am sorry to say we find that very few
have any beauty at all. The circumstances,
OF their national existence down to the
present time have, from the scarcity Of la
Dor and other causes, compelled them to do
| a thing in the shortest and most effectual
way for answering the immediate purpose,
and the beauty of production has been en-
tirely overlooked. may illustrate this by
reference to a pursuit to which | have my.
self personal relation--the cutting Of wood.
The American axe is an axe not intended to
cut tree away neatly, but to cut tree
away quickly. The American does not care
a pin about beauty Of work; his object is
to clear ground"
The above is striking proof that even
genius must not attempt to be too versa.
tile. In attempting the role of Ruskin the
great statesman errs greatly as to his facts
and his brilliant talk is not true. Ameri.
can work, if it has fault, 1t is It's redun-
dance Of ornamentation; we gid plows
and omblazon wagons, our street cars are
moving picture galleries. Our art may be
meretricious and misplaced, but the am
bitlon is not wanting, and time will bring
excellence and refinement One would
suppose Mr.. Gladstone had never seen an
International Exhibition, where the United
States IN every department except that of
pure art as seen in statuary, on canvas, and
in productions where the aesthetic idea
was the aim and the attainment, eXcelled in
grace of proportion, beauty Of finish, in
adaptation and in style. Who, that has
compared our vehicles, whether on street
on rail, or in park, with the sombre clumsy
machines Of Paris and London, has not
seen this, Our defect is not poverty of
art sense but an eXuberance Of ornamental
tion which time will tame. A French
man at our late exhibition looking at one
of our luxurious locomotives replete with
every convenience and every conceit Of
science and art, resplendant IN steel and
BRASS could find no other expression for
his irony, than the question, Where then
is the piano."