Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-09-12

dcnec Of Labor rroablrs.-Th,
Coming Trouble.
! special earsesPsndsass OF The !Dz.E4Er
SEws
TIE Worlds Fair b1sin IS stu
dags slowly along. Toe question
OF a sits has nSi yst bsen ss.tl-d.
In reading the story OF Columbus,
aud OF histsrrible trials in attempt
ing 70 reach the new laaI, one can't
help hearing 4 Sympathetic sigh foF
the great old navigator, but in read
ing the story OF the Chicago Worlds
Fair Directory In attempting to find
a site for the Exposition TO CON
memorate the discovery OF Colum-
bus one can't hep being disguised.
The course pursued by the Directory
has brought Chicago into contempt,
the whole nation iat0 riiicue ami
the Imperial Congress into the
realm Of bIrlsSqIe. Everything
that could be done 20 make this fair
a cr5wning glory for our grand
c5Iutry has beel done 10y the people
at large, by Tia. legislature OF the
State OF Iiiinsis, anl 10y the National
C5ngress 1t Washington. Congress,
honestly believing that Chicago
wSs just the city 20 make a slc,ess
OF sich au enterprise, reidily turned
the fair over 70 our city. The busi.
ness men and general plbiic ac-
ceptUi the national tribute to their
energy AMI activity, and went 10
work 10 show themselves worthy a,
the favor bestowed on them. They
subscribed for exposition stock
from their private purses, they
cSiiei their legislators together
ami made provision for raising 81
19,03l 10y general taxation. The
Legislature even authorized the
Park Commissioners to eNpend
Sl,Ola03) on any park grounds o.
which the exposition might be held,
this money 10 he expended foi
Identifying and ornamenling ths.
srJuHis alone, and entirely indt-
peR;ent % the appropriation for the
FaiF proper. With all this enc0ur
agement, where Is our Fair nov? n
j. the subject Of coarse humor 70!
every newspaper from the Atlantic
- ;he Pacific. it Is being made g
sIut1eCo-k by real estate shark
aud Peaniless politicians, and H.
place % being a Grand EXPOSITION
il hiss becnme n Grand Imposition.
There j. no doabt a al but the
trouble i owing 10 the board OF di-
rcct1rs, tie local b0iy which wa
SUPPOSED 30 determine the site an
charaeser OF the b1iidinss, and g.
On. This hoard has rally 4
grounds - * called n pJpuiar on.
When the Fair was first talked q.
steps were taken t. issue stock e.
private subscribers 10 the amount o;
S5,0ilY013. Large numbers o.
working men and women tOoS part
OF this stock. 4 call was next
issued % those subscribers 10 meet
and elect n bOlri OF directors
business men and wage workers
who could not attend turne!
over their proxies 70 men who
would he supposed TO know wlat |
10 10. 4 board was elected, the
mos. prominent members OF which
urn Olt T. De a few ex-railroaG
men snd pestilent politicians. On,
N m, The President o. the b0anl. Mr.. |
Cage, q 2 wcil-kIOwn tanker OF un-
~! elc.i4l.c character and OF un-
iaub.ei integrity, ard his nam. |
alone gave tone % tire body. Blu
The 1ciire members are men out al |
work. Mr.. Jeffrey i a newspaper |
hcgl- lie j said O. DC the greatest |
railroad manager in America, tiiqt |
Is by reporters. He was lorIneri, |
by the Illinois Genital /
lie "a. ~ hEst engaged rs n kim
Of Grand boy in the ma-ter |
mechanics Office. He manifested
taste Tor mechanics and this tsst,
iF1s encouraged by his supel Tor Of
lCers- He succeeded in becominy
a tol-rltly fair m9chinii. But ne
,Ieee1lud In getting acguailte1
r!tl tire daughter OF the preSi,Ieni
% the Toi-!, ami married her. TIN.
pres lGuut, IL. Ciaskt. a fine or
gentleman, sensible ard practical
iii 10: iuTn his nex SON in-iaw on,
IN the coli, a M0r1sini did. but
lushe,i him on, until finally Mr..
Jeffrey came tOhe general manager |
1.-THE |. &. R.R. In time Mr.C!aTk.
vas forced y leave the road, and Mr.
Jeffrey soon followed. The fact wa
dr. Jeffrey thought b run the road
rot as the |. &. II. r. bl; as the
Ielrey system. OF course he va
ired. His atheria-law was al. ,
e1dy gone. the Chicago paper
COX up Jeffrey g a martyr. They
.oomsl him f,r direct0r-general Of ,
he Fair. They sent him TO Paris /
o investigate and report on the
french exposition. Just fancy
ending 4 MAN to France for such u,
urp5sc who cant speak a worl OF ,
'neaci. who knows nothing Of the {
RS AMI sciences, nor even of me- 1
h2nics except something about n Z
lcOmoiive- This man cherisll,s A !
eadly enmity % the road of which I
e was once tbs manager. This {
nd happens q be directly men /
one1 Ia connection with the .
Eorit's Fair. IL was hoped tina; /
= ~ cs-oPefItiOn very choice Sit. /
Juld beOytaiDel on the Lake Front. 7
he management Of the road Is now
ivided among Itself. a nesting of o
ne directors OF the road will be 9
ED on Oct. s. Part Of these direct :
3 belong % the Jeffrey faction. and n
they win Mr.. Jeffrey will ret n
acA again, aud then, rs general L
lauaser q The /. {. aud a. director c
tue Fair, be eau fix n site thai b
al benefit both sides. But nox. O
hile OUTSIDE the road. he is afraid r
ie |. {. would benefit by the trade. =
I'd that would be gall and worm I,
God to him a
Another Of the Directors. Col. 81
avis, / professional party politi- A
an, who would, II he had the uoyer. n
'nsign 70 eternal periitiOn all citi- 6,
ns who dealt vote as be doe. N,
mother, n Mr.. Bryan, is one of n
ese ofensively ultra Nationalist q
mericans who souI disfranchise n
cry citizen that could not adOpt 4.
2 type Of Ameriesuism. First he N
IS acquired his local notoriety by n
; stacks On Roman Catholics ami m
German Lutherans. ms Re- N,
,ious sense he was free to condemn b,
EN- as they We're to condemn him. M
( in a business sense IL was had al
ste 70 place him IN the Worlds
lr Directory, 4 scheme 50 closely a
with Rome and Roman 4,
'untries- Mr.. Bryan, 1 believe 4 sp
canadian, and ex-ROman himself. -
10 his religious views they are A.
own, and 40 one should inipugn IA
sm, but in cosmopolitan enter 90
Sc liberal mind would inspire 81
re confidence. Then Ben Butter on
9Th was male Secretary OF the ~
rectory, and he Is known en- M,
IS as party politician, Just A. la
! IS the one idea msn in religion. as