Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-06-16
CHICAGO LETTER.
The Subject Of the Worlds Fair Agi-
tates the Residents OF the fGar-
den City."-StnSatiunal Law
Trial.-A try About Corrupt
Citizenship.-Raee and Religious
Issues.-Arizona is Angry, Etc.

! CHICAGO, June Is, 1890. TCor-
respondence Of the DEsERET NEWS.
Chicago is at present violently
agitated over the proposed Worlds
Fair which is to be held here in
1898. The time is close at hand
when our government mmst lie sat
isfied that our city means business.
To get up a fair Of the kind projected
takes money. Talk viii not DO il.
Ii is easy enough TO get persons who
will put down their names for large
amounts Of fair stock, but when il
comes to putting a hand down in the
pocket the matter is different. In
fact, it was folly to think that the
thousands Of persons who put down
their names for stock would or could
pay any money for such an enter
prise. Nine-tenths Of these peyple
are wage-wOTkers whose average
daily wage during the year will not
equal 75c. day. At the time hun
dreds Of them put down their names
in order 10 swell the boom for Chi
cago location. 1t was thought that
If this city were selected the U.
:. Treasury would be thrown
open, and the question OF surplus
charmingly settled. Then the
strikes and labor troubles set in. and
the average worker began to think
that perhaps the big show would be.
after all, but a rich mans luxury. I
Thus mattels progressed until a 4
few days ago, when it was realized /
that something must be done or the
Fair might go to New York in the
end.
Chicago has an area Of Ia square
miles. Its bonded indebtedness is
about Sl3 011,G0l The total yaIus-
tion OF its taxable property j. about
Sol cocoon. By constitutional pro-
vision its indebtedness must not ex-
ceed five per cent Df its valued tax
able property. By this its debt
ought not tc exceed $40, coo, 600, but
the present excess was contracted
previous to the adoption Of the exist
ing constitution Of Illinois: hence
its Legitimacy. Chicago has no
money on hand, 10 Surplus, no way
Of getting momey for a fair exceft
by private enterprise, and private
enterprise doesn't generally run 10
shows, except when such men as
Buffalo Bill and 2. T. Barnum en-
gage in them.
On Monday evening last the CITY
Council adopted resolutions tending
IN practical direction. The Cow
srnor Of Illinois was requested 10
ali special session OF the Legis-
allure. so as TO procure an amend
nent TO the constitutional clause
taxation and indebted
ness In Chicago. The city when J
egally empowered would issue I
'onds for 5000, 900, the proceeds /
o be devoted to 'sThe Worlds |
Columbian Exposition, 1882 II
vas thought at first the Governor
would Immediately acquiese in this 5
but IT appears there is still
hitch somewhere. Delegations [
PROTESTING against n special session {
re moving OIL the governor. U. her I
delegations are urging that the {
Australian ballot system, the COM a
ulsory education law, and the max /
ng Of Chicago city co-extensive in c
rea with that of Cook County be I
made subjects Of the session. These +
usybodies are likely to complicate I
matters, since the mass OF the people Il
I large don't want these issues 3
liked with the Fair business. In n
ependent Of all this there are n
Irge number Of Sabbath observers B
no want the Fair closed on Sun Il
avs. conditionaliy TO their agreeing [.
public taxation for it. Then there b
re The ProhibltiOnists, who want al n