The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-09
HE FRENCH EXPOSITION.

L
Address Of Prince Minister firard Welcoming
| President Carnot.
PARIS, May 6.-President Garnet
formally opened the exposition this af-
ternOon. The president was accompan-
led to the exposition grounds by the
presidents of the senate and chamber
of deputies. The party were escorted
by a squadron of cavalry. They left
the Elysee at l:3o O'Clock anu an artil-
lery salute announced their arrival
under the central dome of
| the main exposition building. President
Carnot assembled the stairs that had
been erected under the dome. III. Tir-
ard, the prime minister, made an adj
dress welcoming the president. He
declared that the exhibition exceeded
all expectations, and proved that the
French people still preserved all the
| qualities for which they had been
noted despite the acuteness of the
recent crisis they had been able to col
lect splendid array of exhibits, al
though every government did not Off
cially take part in the work. Most of
them generously seconded the efforts
of private individuals. In the conclu-
sion OF his address NJ. Tirard extended
a greeting to the strangers now IN
Paris, and said that republican France
1 WOuAu SuOW lISclI HOSplIdDlo anu B0u-
| erouS, treating them not as rivals, in
spring jealousy but as fellow workers
laboring for the happiness of human
| ity. President Carnot in his address
referred to the uDdauntable energy of
a work of the Severest trial to fresh in
dustrial triumph. He afterwards in
spected the various departments OF the
| exhibition.
| To-day in brilliant defiance of the
omens of political incertitude and with
a characteristic smile of felicitation
| toward all the world and towards the
enemies of democracy in particular
| France again celebrates the progress OF
the world in the arts and sciences of
peace. The Inauguration of the eX
position of 1889, the centenary of the
real birth of modern government is a
superb testimony to the advance of
human skill in every quarter of the
globe. Before and about that it must
be acknowledged to be a substantial
proof of the stability of the resolution
of the people of France in the main
tenance OF popular institutions.
The skepticism of other people
concerning the depth of the sincerity
and steadfastness of the French in
perpetuating liberty which could have
been acquired only in revolution and
which the close of a century of convul>
Slons in every portion of organized So
ciety finds confirmed in its cradle land
Is largely due to a confounding of
French department with democratic
principles, and this confusion of form
and substance has been established i'll
English literature by Edmund Burke
and Thomas Carlyle. The one beheld
the orgies of "a mob insulting beauti-
full queen and tearing off in frenzy the
} bandage which despotism had bound
: upon the eyes of great nation. The
eloquence with which an elevated and
chivalrous nature expressed itspers on
al horror became gospel for Eng
: lish thinking races. The plctor-
i ial splendour with which the
gruff but poetic sage of Chelsea re-
ceived the same chronicle of mighty
: paroxysms heightened while it illumi-
mated the doctrine of Burke so that it
| still survives in England as the phllo-
I sophy of conservatism against the IT.
! reSistible progress of political destiny
r The essential Impressions received by
! the American people about the repu6.
/ lie of France are reflected from Eng
liSh mediums whose refractiOn and
, eXaggeration are due not only to Burke
and Carlyle but to the sense of irrita-
ton which it is natural English inter
prefers of foreign politics should fee
? towards people who have dispensed
with the symbols and revenues of dy-
the chamber of deputies is enlarged
into an incipient cataclysm;
J every breach of conventional de-
| cOrum i'll the senate is tortured
l into a revolution of impending disfa-
, vOr. Would Americans admit that
? frequent occurrences i'll their national
congress should be accepted us indica.
5 tive of their attachment to the consti-
, tuition. 1t is true that discipline OBJ
8 served in the house of commons is
: more rigorous in eXteTnalS than in any
7 other contemporaneOus body and that
the house of lords is generally pervaded
/. by that auStere property which is the
national atmosphere of a mOrtuary
h chapel. 1t is true too, that the French
republic has committed errors, but
: there IS no statesman who will deny
that every forward movement in the
history of popular rights in Great Bri
J tain is laggard i'll the foot steps OF
: France. While the Anglo-SaXon may
1 be less volatile in his temper than the
Frenchman, and more composed in his
: manners, the political principles which
lie in the rock bed of the Gladstone
revolution of peace have been borrow
, ed from republican France and hel
!. youngest sister the republic of the
l United States who caught from he
v lips hundred years ago the breath o.
: constitutional independence and WHOSE
a centennial you have just celebrated
t In the contests in and out of congress
:. which characterized the formation o
i our own constitution and the unsolye,
e problems with which its silence or it
r ambiguity veXes the national con
l. seriousness should be found the assuI
ances that the republic, environed b
monarchies and still suffering fron
maleficient traditions of privilege, wi
+ be able to withstand the dangers tina
Ie may lie ahead, as it has over born
"a those that have vainly assaulted its life
The exposition of 1889 is unlike a
l. its predecessors in certain large IT
I'd spects. The chief of these is its en-
* phasiS of the inherent conservatism q
r skilled labor which has pursued ii
aI liberal way all over the world an
rs which seeks under the auspices of tn
x republic of France an opportunity fo
s, making its progress and of learning til
lR great lessons of new methods, me-
re means and more economic logic in
ne comparative study of processes, appl
10 ances and results, for the exposition
tn a triumph of industry over caste. III
ig United States is the only goyernmeI
of importance which officially partic
ot pates in it. No diplomat resident {
RI tranSitory in Paris accompanies IL
president of the republic in the Ger
s. mony of inauguration, in opening Il
Id exposition of 1867. the last of the n;
On poleOns had, like the first, a cortege /,
a kings and the exhibits
st the various European countri
he are tricked out with net,
us privileges as their ostensible head
The brutal theatricalism iof chainiI
useful labor to the pageantry cart
ornamental idleness was one of Il
IN boosted incidents of the forerunner
ng the event which was begun to-day wi
-ce the utmost pomp. "A free scenic n
tion." as Carlisle called the French, C.
u lend grandiose ceremonial. and /
he burning words that Carlisle wrote
vs. sneer are to-day veritabIe in sobriei
~. Ia his chapter entitled The Feast