Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-09-25
BROAD VIEWS COMMENDED.
sunday Opening of the Worlds fs
Declared a Petty Issue

SUNDAY opening Wori0Es
Declared Petty Issue
To the Editor Of the TELs6RAx- HERALD:
As all the human family are sup
posed TO be interested IN the World s
Columbian Exposition, no one eau pos
sibly object To my being Interested also.
i must confess that my interest has
been somewhat increased as l have
noted from various sources, varied
movements OF self-appointed "sub-com-
mittees" who are seeking 10 have a
hand in regulating the vast concerns OF
this ''own aud only" Worlds Column
ban Exposition. By some strange over
sight more people seem TO be left out of
its management than are included IN II.
aud hence there arises an array of
CHECKERS" as TO how the great fair
should be run. If not run IN their
way. of couse the whole thing is wrong;
and If not entirely suppressed, should
I've put into straight jacket and made
TO walk IN ways circumspectly perpen-
dicular. 1t was this same sentiment a
few years ago that burned people at the
stake who had opinions of their own,
and used thumb-screws and the rack TO
inspire thought and equalize the aspira-
tons OF the human race. That's una
chine work." and machine work In
thought is mental death.
Now,as to this same great Exposition.
"The best government on earth'-hav-
ings the matter in charge, is presumed
to have selected managers, who are
humane, and conscientious. and who
| know the laws of the land. These men
have chosen many assistants from cti-
zenship of an equally high grade OF
| thought and action. 1t is not their far.
| They do not claim to own it. tits the
.world s." and the citizens of the world
will be there to see and to enjoy and
the Viking and the Puritan alike will
share its blessedness under the only
starry flags of the world has ever seen.
1t managers commission, -president
| and all concerned are OF a class having
wide information and experience. They
| undoubted know the "law and gospel
as we'll as any priest IN the land, and
| have as much pride, and sentiment and
stalwart sense of right as any man, or
set of men, "that can be met or men,
toned" l believe them patriotic
enough, and high minded enough, to
SO conduct their work as not to make il
; anational reproach, when indeed for the
worlds blessing. In a word-ihat they
know the law and will adhere to it,
both in its letter and spirit. The re-
sponsibility is theirs, and while not
above being advised, trust that when
1t comes to business, they will do Ms
they please.
l am led to these remarks, because !
have noticed with pain the earnestness
U e 40, to hatr
vice lin a manner amounting almost to
dictatiOn) as to whether or no, this
great exposition. shall or shall not be
open to the public view, on an al legged
Holy day. In this spirit a small part of
the citizens of Grand Rapids have lately
"resolut, d. and if the matter is not
permanently disposed of now, it doubt
less will be as soon as another county is
heard from.
DIR. Fluhrer's remarks on that coca
sion were those of man, who scorns
the thumb screw as an instrument of
progress. HIS words were such as
should find an echo in every soul,
other than those who elect themselves
to be their brothers. keeper, "if'' they
can keep HIM in their own way. If they
can't thus keep him let him be damned,
| including the managers of the World S
Columbian Exposition, who do not see
everything with the same puny. mar
row, near sighted eyes. Some things
make some men Every tired" and this
is one of those things thattires me.
| believe the Worlds Columbian Exposi-
ton will be managed in such a way rs
to fulfill its great mission; that it Will
mark notable epoch in the nations
history. and rebound to the credit of
the world whose inhabitants will be ex-
bitors there, and in IN the presence of
these things, the question, OF whether
it shall, or shall not. be open on the
first day of the week becomes so mfi-
nitesimally small, that it cannot be
seen with million horse power micro
| scope. +. Ct. ID. HOLDEN.