Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-11-07
AN OPPORTUNITY.
The Question for Transportation to the
Worlds Fair.
Miss Sarah Winter KeIIeg on the CUES
tion. Reproducing the Exhibitors
Throughout the Country.

achievement should be ont of all proper
ton to the opportunity, the Columbian
| Exposition will prove the most command
ing event in all earth's peaceful epochs
it will constitute the elimination in tina
wonderful series Of bloodless and beneli
Cient cOnquests which have characterized
the progress OF our country. Concernin!
the resourcefulness OF the great republic
her energy, daring and splendid successes
the peoples of the earth will receive al
object Lesson supremely impressive.
And those sovereigns, the states, will be
be brought face to face, in friendly emu
lation, and there will be made a.quaint
ances over which the moss of strangenest
can never grow.
To those fortunates who may be able t
study at leisure the great, manysideC
display, especially to the eager, curious, re-
ceptlve young, ii will pass the college cur.
rlculum in broadening, suggesting, lnspr.
ing Ingenuity, the inventive sense the d.
vine thirst to know all will receive powerful
impulsion. In especial degree will the
noble sentiment OF patriotism be quick
ened in the American heart. A grand
fire of sympathy will be kindled, sweep
ing the fishing village of the east ocean,
the mining camp Of the Sierras, the negro
cabin of the Savannahs, the communal
Pueblo, the Indian tepee. Then it will be
li,, Il I.nt ttnyl pc,yi>,
that appalling desolati0n, the cactus and
sage grown "plains," even those great
agglomerations OF steriity, the indeposa-
Die mountains, can he made to yield the
good, the useful, the beautiful, if man ia
but enough importunate.
Every nation will be at the great cos
tune assembage, and in court vesture.
A far reaching fraternal feeling will be
stimulated yet it will be forceably felt
that the worlds old state is wiped out,
the Old battle cries sienced, that there
has come the promised new earth i'll
which stroug emphasis is placed on
things unseen-lile, ffuitage, the fruitage
of the soul.
A building seating 10000, in Chcago's
heart will furnish the arena where the
worlds great specialists will discuss art,
science, music; labor and capital peace
and war; the problems OF economies and
of humanity.
Yes, the Columbian exposition will be
a momentoUs, benefcient achievement,
and will, beyond doubt, be worth all that
it may cost, in direct income and in indi-
rect beneticent outcome. Regarding il
from national standpoint, all American
citizens will be sharers in the dividends
But who, at nearer view, are the special
The answer, as in all like cases, is,
'the favored minority; the mOneyed peo-
pie the people of leisure; the well people
the travelling people, the sight.seers."
Aside from the people in and near Chica-
20, only the wel-to,do can hope for
vision of the wonderful display, even
thou.h transportation rates and hotel
prices should be deeply cut. The remote,
he SICK the halt, the poor, the ignorant
y Indifferent, the overwhelming ma ority
Of American citizens, who elect our rul |
ers, who fight our battles, who build our
'oads, who raise our food, who make our
will fail to be brought en-
airport with the great seance where the
sind guardians and divinitles OF the ma
ion are to he invoked. The deep thrills,
he enthusiasm, the passion OF patriotism,
he broadening horizon, the stirring hope,
he redeemng ideals are not fo~ that al
says--leit out class, the submerged poor
not for that powerful bOne-and- W
3lass-the independent poor.
With phenomenal opportunity, pro-
'ided at a princely cost by All all-round
AK, it seems all infinite pity that every
nan who helps to make this greatest Of
nations should fail of being up.lifted by
his beautiful, majestic, supreme express
ion of mans attainment-the prophecys
# high achievement. Every child of the
reat republic should see the marvellous
which commentaries the put
ing upon the stage of that strange new
'lay, "The drama Of a new world" which
the opening of a new
arth to the curiosity, the enterprise, the
of mankind-a discovery as
and stirring as would be to-
ay, the discovery OF a passage to the
corning star.
| half believe that it would in the end,
ay our nation to make it possible for all
IS people to study their country, their
lanet, indeed, as it will be formulated at
he Columbian exposition. The railroads
ould well afford to furnish the poor this
ldicated outing, or inning, and gain by
he generous behavior, and help America
} the pre-eminence of being the broadcast
f spirit. the most generous, the most
rincely OF nations.
But if this appears an unFopable lib
rality, there is that, present to my
nought which seems practicable of ex-
cution by the government, or by syn
icate OF wealthy philanthropists.
In these days of advanced optics, OF
amera clubs, Of Photographic marvels,
spectacular achievements, it might be
ossible to reproduce in free exhibitions
throughout the land, the
lost important features of the Worlds
air. With plan well-advisei, with effort
,ell organized, all the people of our
ountry might be given the opportunity
D see by optical appliances, free of cost,
cheme need not interfere with the pro.
assional stereoptican exhibitors, since
hey and their instruments could be en-
aged for the execution of the plan.
he instrument makers, the press, the
the postal department, express
could be depended upon for
DIV rates, work and appliances, while
vervwhere the exhibitors would get free
from the local authorities
f the town visited, be furnished free
all for the exhibition and free adver-
Using.
This free -to-all Great" the national
government might provide, or each state
night manage for it's own traders.