Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-03-26

commissioners. We have not time to de
scribe these details fully in the present ar
ticle, but think enough has been written tC
show that the proposed plan is in the right
direction; that board of public works
will make lower taxes possible or secure
better improvements; make il possible fol
any, man, the poor as we'll as the rich, to
pare the time necessary TO perform the
duties of councilman, and thus insure
better government.
A perfect government is a matter OF
growth. Let ms first ddrdncC, and we car
hen perfect the details as experience sug-
gests.
The Cincinnati. Columbus and Cleveland
papers made great mistake in assuming
that the centennial exhibitions to be held
at Cincinnati and Columbus, this year, are
rivals. The inference that this is the fact
Is unnecessary, gratuitous and false. The
Cincinnati exhibition will be great indus
trial display, participated in by the states
OF the Ohio valley, and we have no doubt
II VIII be the finest ever made in Cineln-
nati. All that is asked of Springfield Is
that lis manufacturers will occupy the
space assigned TO them, with machinery
and manufactured products. and that our
people will go down in regiments and visit
the exposition. We understand that our
space is already spoken for, and we are
sure that multitudes Of our people will go
down to Cincinnati and swell the crowds in
the exposition buildings. That is all that
will be expected of us. and this will not
interfere at all with what is expected of US
by the managers of the Columbus exposi-
tion, which is a state affair, and which
will be educational and historical as well
ss industrial, and which, in its leading fea-
lures, will be entirely different from the
Cincinnati = affair. The people are
asked TO bring the two ends Of
the century just closing together
and into contrast. at Columbus, and to pre-
sent to the country the fruits Of
one hundred years of free. Chris
tian and American civilization. The
Columbus exposition will be grand
session Of great university Of political
economy, at which all the people of the
country will be invited to be present as
students. In some respects it will be
different and much
better and finer than anything We have ever
seen in this country-Or in any other
country. 1t will be celebration, of forty
days and forty nights, of the foundation
and growth of the mighty empire of the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. inception and rapid and
Developments, in physical pro-
gress and achievements in morals, religion,
education and intellectual erowth--is
beyond and above anything
which has been known in the history of the
world or dreamed of by poets or prophets.
The new court house, the public library,
the Y. NJ. c. A. building, the Wolf creek
the Park street sewer, the
two new bridges now building, the White
Line street railway, the proposed public
building. the proposed canal warehouse,
the soldiers monument, and several other
minor improvements, made, making or pros
pective, speak with many tongues of Day
toms substantial improvement. We are apt
TO forget how our beautiful city is growing,
and 1t does us all good to look over the i'm
list every once in a while.-
Dayton Herald.
1t ought to do you good. 1t is better to
look at these improvements than to be
yroaning over the hard times. Here lin
Springfeld) We have the foundation laid
Of new government building; the excava-
ion nearly finished for splendid city
feet long by 80 wide-three
and half stories high; splendid public
library building, work on which is to be
begun after harvest; several fine business
blocks already begun or soon to be begun,
in addition to at least two manufacturing
concerns )the East street and the Lagonda
Shopsl which are the largest of their kind
n the world. and sixty to seventy other
establishments, all running
with full forces of men, a portion of them
working eleven hours day: with several
mercantile establishments that are really
with two really fine and
,rand opera houses, and all the features of
arge cities, and financial matters gradually
md surely improving. Surely, it is quite
wise to look at these things OCCASION
lily.
The proposition TO reconstruct the form
# our city government would not have
,een made if the management of our city |
Itfairs for the past few years had been wise
md efficient. 1t was deemed necessary, by |
ONE of our best and strongest men of both |
,arties, to provide against the accidents |
hat are sure to befall US when our good |
itizens get careless about attending eau
lot of interested ineompetents to get into
Aices. The good citizen is too apt to take |
political nap, from one fall to the next. |
nd not to wake up at all in the spring, at
he very time when he should be most vigi-
ant and active. The proposed plan is
ormed to protect these amiable sleepy
eads from the consequences Of their own |
egligence. Therefore all citizens should
ttend the meeting at the Grand opera
ouse, tonight, and listen to what is to be
aid, pro and con, and be ready to decide,
and honestly. for or against
he plan.
The Ohio State Journal begins the week
y saying:
The Springfield REPUBLIC says its city
as a warm side for Columbus. and will
how it 10 good effect at our coming centen-
ial. Well. that's right and reciprocal
pringtield has no better friend than the
apital city, and when we see such an an
ouncement as that the Erie road (Nypano)
making arrangements TO run its passenger
aims through Springfield. instead of three
lilies TO one side, as it does now, we feel
lmOst as good as If something equally for
lnate were about to happen to ourselves.