Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-11-20


their course; Donnelly says:
mo; comets are aggregations of
stones of small size, that go travelling
through space; and the gravel beds and
lodges which you find on this planet,
the earth, are the results of the contact
of some comet with our globe in long
past ages" Now if Mr.. Donnelly, who
is an able man in many respects, is
'off' on Shakespeare and comets, and
we have perfect right to believe that
he is, and the majority is certainly on
our side, we may also believe that he is
a trifle 'toff'' as to the Farmers ALI
ance business. The board of trade and
spectators are not enemies of the
farmer; they raise prices as much and
as often as they depress them; therefore
the average is undisturbed; and think
1 proved in the North American Review
of October, '91, that they are the chief
means of his GLocdys having a ready
market at the nearest shipping point
for his grain; and even at his barn
door if he doesn't want to haul his
grain.
This year the yield of wheat in the two
Dakotas and Minnesota is not far from
one hundred and fifty million bushels.
Consider the amount of money which
that sends into the northwest. 1t is not
all profit, of course; but large part of
it might be called wages because it
represents the results of labor; and it
will be an enormous benefit to that por-
ton of the United States, and all the
rest of the country will share in it.
Such an influx of money, thus dis
tributed is vastly better for the COM
munity than where few men acquire
vast fortunes by successful deals. If
we could by fair and equitable processes
| divide up the enormous estates of the
Astors, Vanderbilts, Goulds and Rookie
fellers, among the entire people, it
would be among the best things that
could happen. A hundred thousand
dollars is enough for any man or fam
! lily. Then if great plan needed to be
carried out, it could be done by bank or
corporation capital. One of the
great dangers to this nation is
threatened in the concentration
of wealth in few hands. An
enormous individual capital working by
methods of secresy which are at the
command of crafty millionaire can
| buy almost anything or anybody. Some
! Judges even can be bought, at least
! snch things have happened, and there
fore may happen again. Certain mem
bers of the legislature, sometimes
amounting to majorities, are always
purchasable. Given on one side rich,
crafty, silent man who wants to buy
Judges and lawmakers; and on the other
side Judges and lawmakers who are
ready to be bought; and you have a
combination that is perpetual menace
to free institutions.
And now word about the worlds
fair People on the Atlantic seaboard
make a mistake if they think the
worlds fair at Chicago is going to be a
Chicago fair; or an Illinois cattle
show, as some sneerers have named it.
Chicago is not handling the world S
fair. The United States have the job
in hand, and the location of the enter
prise is q mere incident. The fair had
to be someaohere; New York, Washing
ton, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Chicago
wanted it. One could only be appoint
ed, therefore four had to be disappoint-
ed. But at the proper time all of them,
and the communities which they rep
resent, will put their shoulders to the
wheel and the great movement will
go on.
Chicago got the prize of the location
because she worked for it. There is a
certain spirit in the west that is pro-
gressive and proud and full of insist
| ance. It exists and it shows itself;
you can't repress it. The New York
people didn't thoroughly comprehend
this; they took it for granted that the
community at large would agree
with them that New York city
was the only place in America
to hold a worlds fair; and while
they reposed quietly in this belief
the Chicago men went to work and
used all the arts of persuasion known
to mankind, appealing as well to preju-
dice as to local patriotism, and in short
they 'got there"
Perhaps after all, Washington would
have been the best place. 1t is GER
tainly the capital of our great nation,
and the nations glory and strength are
embodied there in the public buildings,
which next to the invisible institutions
of freedom are the most impressive
tokens of our republics greatness
Then in Washington the United States
own the land; the district of Column
bia belongs to no state in particular; il
is just as much part of Illinois or the
Dakotas, or California, as of New York
or Massachusetts,. The United States
through its congress, could have voted
and erected public buildings, and these
could have been permanent, and other
nations could have deposited their fab
RIGS and machinery therein, and we
could have had a sort of perpetual
worlds fair there; and the state pride
of every citizen would have heen en-
couraged, and no ones feelings would
have suffered, This was a favorite
dream of mine; but it was not TO be.
There will, however, be a great dis
play in Chicago Chicago has the finest
parks in the country; the city itself il
spite of all slurs upon the small river
! that creeps through it is noble one
Its citizens think there is not such an
other city in the whole world, and they
will strive to impress the same belle
on the minds of all the world at the
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