Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-09
EVERY WORLDS FAIR sue.
CESSFUL.

The fact most patent TO the common
mind is the exceptionless success of
every modern international exhibition.
Some were more fortunate than others,
but none have been failures. This was
true Of the magnificent fairs of Australia,
Russia Austria, Belgium, Holland,
France England, and Scotland, and
there is no record of a single American
display, whether of manufactures or
art, OF music or minerals, of agriculture
or science, that has not been triumph;
the last, that of the Centennial, being
an unoxampled revelation of the wealth
and genius OF our gigantic civilization.
And yet, in the face Of such history,
IL is not less true that every one OF
these worlds fairs has had to encounter
q storm of doubt ani DELAY. The more
brilliant the ultimate result the more
persevering the original opposition.
The experience Of Paris, London,
Vienna, and Philadelphia, was all of
this kind, and now the same injustice
is showing its hand again in New York
in the midst Of her preparations for
the Festival of Peace in October, 1888.
Certainly nothing can be accomplished
by these discouraging efforts but worry
and distress of mind. loften wonder at
the motive for the spirit of obstruction
The New York Festival will not stop
or even pause, so that those who object
will have no mischief to reward their
pains, even if they desired such a
suicidal issue, which they do not. They
are generally very rich men. You
never see poor man, especially if he is
at the same time wealthy in his mind,
opulent in his genius, standing in the
path of progress. lie is always
a helper, and his school or class
spontaneously fill these grand caravan
saries with the best fruits OF their skill.
And why should not the money.rich
be as eager in this New York develop,
ment? | asked that very question in
1875, when the same class hung back 10
Philadelphia before the Centennial of
1876, In spite Of themselves they |
always reap largely from the harvest |
sown by others. Their property is re.
sistlessly enhanced. In very spite of
their criticisms there is not new
ship attracted to our shores, not a new
train, not new discovery, that will |
not add to their heaps of wealth. And |
these objectors are all proud Of the
present and future of New York. On
that point, at least, there is no other
opinion. Admiration ofthat marvellous
Cosmos is the characteristic Of all New
Workers. They unite on that platform
as solidly as the English do upon Lon
don, or the French upon Paris, or the
Turks upon Constantinople. 1t would
be libellous if it were otherwise, when
pride in New York city is only another
name for the wonder of the foreigner
in that dazzling centre. Hence the
illogical folly of these present doubts
as to the Fair Of 1883, when from that
very local pride, reinforced by outside
amazement, and growing daily into
fresh surprises, will inevitably rush the
final acclaim Of the nations. i. is only
necessary additionally TO romembor
that New York city is salways q novelty.
1t is odd, bizarre, unique it is every.
Thing fresh and sudden it is at once
changeful and permanent; old and now
American and European the Occident
and the Orient all in one scene sue.
ceeding another And If is so to the
New Yorker, it is even more 80 to the
Eastern, Western, and Pa.
cifc man to the citizens Of other
nations, and to all the tribes OF the
universe. Let US also admit that New
York is always of a varied develop.
ment in quiet times. She is a show,
in Spring, Summer, and Winter of
every year. Her normal condition is
that Of curiosity shop. She is ever
on parade; to morrow London, the
next Paris, the day after Rome. Her
ovoutions are as changefulas theatre,
her fashions as fresh, her appetites as
luxurious, her expenditures as royal
as II she were newborn every
II her tastes were as epicurean
as these Of Luculus, and her wealth
rs boundless as Crnsus. Harness to
such resources the attractions of a
Worlds Fair, into which all the treas
nres and discoveries Of the earth shall
be poured, and you willneed no prophet
TO anticipate the glories of 1888
Foney's Progress.