The morning call., 1890-06-06
THE WORLDS FAIR.
Chauncey M. DepeV Speaks at
Chicago.
An Immense Gathering at the Press Club
Entertainment.
The New York Orator Delivers an Eloquent
Address on the Approaching
Exhibition.
Special to THE CALL.

Special to THE CALL.
CHICAGO, June blight thousand people
gathered at the Auditorium tonight at the en-
| teilainment OF the Chicago Press Club. Chauncey
NJ Depew delivered an oration on the Worlds
Fair. His remarks were appropriate for the oc-
casion, and were received with rounds of ap
rlause. He said:
DEPEw's SPEECH.
Ladies and Gentlemen: When received the invi-
taton OF the Press Club of Chicago to deliver its
nuai address supposed that it desired free and
easy chat from ayman upon journalism. The
question which has been assigned me by your COM
allure OF this great enterprise Will be dependent IN
great measure upon the view which is taken OF it
Dy the press Of the country II there be not gen
ytAi agreement among the newspapers OF the repuo-
lr as to the character and extent OF this exhibition
aa the support which II should receive u had better
/ bc abandoned at the start No question I'M
portant and none affecting more nearly their pros
| perity and their pride has been presented TO the
american people IN quarter or century. Inc
occasion is at once our opportunity and our neees
sty-our opportunity to show 20 the nations Of the
world our marvellous growth i'll population, in set
/ tement in cities III railroads, and our develop
resources; our necessity In presenting 10 CONNER
clal peoples OF all races and cllmes view OF our
| and factory which Will furnish the incentives for
barter and exchange in all the Inarts OF the world
which, By absorbing that which we can produce be-
| den the ocean with reghts shall re-create for
I US a merchant marine, shall carry our nag once
more upon every sea and into every harbor and
employ aud enrich our own people.
COMPARATIVELY USKS OWN.
We forget that we are 5000 miles from the near
est of the oldest nations and that traditional
| policy has prevented them from becoming acquaint-
means OF intercommunlcaton and familiar
knowledge OF every part OF our own country have led
! measure with estimate of ourselves. But this is
only the utteTance OF the Fourth of July orator and
Britain United dismissed daily
with brief paragraph as to the markets, or longer
Continental papers they are rarely mentioned at All
To the European, tie Aslatie the African. the Aus-
OF foreign countries is largely from the the
eye, the touch and the ear Our efforts to reach the
world through this, the only channel which have,
have been lamentably inadequate. our first exhibit
tion In New ork in 1858 was managed by private
ernne ent; was opened by the President of the United
eign exhibits were seized for its o6Iigations and
Horace Greeley one of its managers, was impris-
oned in Paris for its debts. Our second exhibition,
the Centennial one OF 1876 at Fhiladephia was
everything that city and state and the intelligent
or Of patriotic citizens &c eSgid nd create but It
TO make 1t all that 1t might have been.
PARIS EXPOSITION.
The grandest and most satisfactory display OF the
products OF the civilization OF the world ever gath
summer. Its spiendor and completeness filed the
observer with the proudest comprehension OF the
products the development and the progress OF man
kind he visitor was lost in wonder at the artistic
OF the countries Of Europe but of those of Asia and
Africa, and the continental Islands of the South
Seas. Russia and little Belgium, Germany and
terrtorialiy dminutive Holland, Italy and Sweden
and Norway, Great Britain and her dependencies
glers the descendants OF the tribes who succored
tae children of Israel In their march for the
Promised Land and OF the peoples who fought
ag ainst Alexander In india presented so fully the
best of their skill and culture, OF their prod
ucts and peculiarities, that walk through their
department was equivalent to journey around the
gioDe. Ii was only when an American came to the
assfy med n he
United st tes and saw how utterly inadequate was
the exhibit as representation even suggestion
of our advancement aud achievem in the arts,
in mechanics in industries and inventions, that.
with the blood mantling his cheeks with mortihca-
tion he felt that credit and reputation
could only be established am ong trading and COM
mereial peoples by an exhibition in America, the
ton TO the nations and tribes Of the earth SO hos
pitabe and importunate as to bring them all within
the boundaries of our fair. On that occasion the
republic must wear all her decorations upon her
breast, and receive her guests with unstnted liber
atty. Such fair only be created by the cordial
cooperation with you, not only Of ali the States
but Of The Federal Government.
ALMOST AN INSULT.
" hen European cabinets discovered that the in
yitation to the Philadelphia Centennial really
mated from corporation they decided not 10 give
IL any ocial recognition, and they regarded the in
vltation itself as an insult to their sovereignty. 1t
was only when General Grant. by second procla-
nation. assured them that the invitation was from
the Government of the United States that they de-
cided TO recognize the exhibition but that invita-
tion necessarily carried with it the Information that
the Government was abSolved from all responsible
ity for the administration or results of the fair
With the knowledge now SO universal about indus
trial exhibitions we caunOt hope to have the world
properly represented here unless the invtat be
from the Government of the United States. In such
form and with such assurances that foreign NJ MIS-
ters will understand that their people come here at
the bidding OF and as the guests OF the republic.
There can be no hesitation, no backwardness, no
niggardnesS In this matter. Either let us have an
exhibition national and international Ia Its charac
ter fostered and fathered by the United States or
none at all Let the generosity Of citizens, the ef
your coInmonw ealth, be given without stint, but be-
hind, to supplement all deficiencies aud TO meet all
obligations, let there stand the majesty OF the
PROMOTER OF PROGRESS.
II Is not ouly 10 open trade with the world not
only show To other countries the perfection of
our machinery and the exhaustless resources of
farms and mines. not only to bring together the ctl
zens OF all portions OF the country under conditions
which promote patriotism that such an exhibition
is valuable but IL is invaluable as an educator.
The fair has been in all OF the world the pro-
moter OF progress and the impulse OF civilization
1t has been the conscrvator OF commerce aud peace
Among the Romans aud the Greeks dificuIties OF
transportation and the savage conditions OF inter
national relations made their fairs mainly festivals
for the exhibitions of physical skill and athletic
sports, but behind them the politicians and conspi-
rators of the day plotted for the possession of power
or the overthrow OF government. In the middle
ages, when might right aud law had ceased
ist, the only traveller who was protected by common
consent III his person and goods was the merchant
going to and returning from the fair. At the fair,
feudal lord and vassal trader and college professor
priest, peasant and student, intermngllng upon q
common footing, Kept alive the fiickering spark of
liberty and learning These exhibitions sprin ying
from small beginnings, and in time creating po wer-
ful communities led to the formation of ties
where merchants and traders resisted the rob5er
barons and fostered commerce and civilization
But was only after the rightful revolt against the
the French Revolution and,n the ecstacies of their
EN- husiasm for universal liberty aud the brother
hood of man. the French wished to their VIC
tory with the world that an international fair for
the first time was held
PERIOD OF CENTENNIALs
We have been passing through period of CEN
tennials, with passion for crowding events into
century packages and labelling aud slowing them
atyut t,aa a = ral
years 1t is singular coincidence that this exhibit
tion. with only four years interval Will be the
has more clearly marked the development OF this
extraordinary century than the growth OF these in
| have made them possible, and the inventions have
enriched them beyond the dreams of all the ages
Prince Albert opened the great Worlds Fair in
| the Crystal Palace in 1851 with the declaration
"that the time had come to prepare for great ex-
hibition not merely national In its conception and
benefits, but comprehensive OF the whole world"
London was the scene Of another exhibition with
six millions two hundred thousand OF visitors The
French In 1867 held their exhibition with still In
creasing numbers and interest, and the worlds last
effort at Paris in 1889 housed In buildings cost
OF people crowding their booths and avenues. The
most successful OF the exhibitions since 1928
that OF Vienna in 1878, on account OF the depres-
sion caused by the panic OF that year. resulted in
made up by the Government. but the Austrians and
Hungarians have ever since regarded 1t as the best
investment ever made by their country. because It
brought their products into notice and opened for
them the markets Of the world.
GREAT EVENT
The Columbus quadrfcentennIal celebration Will
be the only within recorded time In which all
the world can cordially and fraternally unite Il is
not sacrllege to say that the two events to which
civilization to-day owes Its advanced position are
the Introduction of Christianity and the discovery
OF America. The dynamic forces OF our Christian
faith in the destruction of the butresses of pigory
and oppression and the leveling up OF the masses
TO common rights could never have worked such
marvellous results except for the opportunities OF
country and untrammeled population.
When Columbus sailed from Pa0s types had been
discovered, but church and state held intelligence
by the throat. The compass had opened the path
way across the seas, but feudalism had Its foot
upon the neck OF commerce. Hopeless ignorance
and helpless poverty were so burdened by caste
and customs, laws and traditions, that liberty lay
bound and gagged within impregnable prison walls.
But Puritans and Catholics, Huguenots and Luther
ans, English, Dutch. German. French, Swedes, most
OF them fleeing for liberty to worship God accord
lug the dictates their consciences, willing