The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-03
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1low Col. Alex. Campbell Tmpsesscs q
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llow Col. Alex. Campbell TmpFesses the
Aua.rnlinns--iiis Work for the World,
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Tho sTEiLiGEScER Is in receipt OF 9
large budget OF Australian papers con
tanning accounts OF the work OF Col
Alex. Campbell in tho Australian col
onirs in behalf Of tho Worlds Fair. II
needs but n glance to convince ono that
the colonel is accomplishing great good,
and II he does not succeed in pcrsuad.
ing tho Australasian governments 10
send n crGdtablc exhibit to Chicago in
1893, 1t will not be because hc hls not
received tho united support OF the
newspapers. III batch OF u dozen
papers received by tho ISTgLLrGESCEG
yesterday ten have either lengthy inter
views with the colonel or reports OF
speeches In behalf OF tho Worlds Fair
delivered before tho chambers OF COM
mcrcc or legislative bodies. Every
where he goes he creates enthusiasm
for tho Columbian exhibition, and has
excited tho admiration OF the Austral-
ians with his ability rs Il genuine
American boomer.
The following extract froman editorial
in the Melbourne, Australia, Erening
Standard, will be appreciated by the
cooncl's friends in Wheeling, since it
serves TO show how his vim impresscs
at least one editor in that far oil coun-
try:
Certain it is that ordinary British
cheers arc inadequate 10 his suporativo
merits, or--shall VIC say?-to his show
man-likc ability. Colonel Campbell
comes to us from America-from Chi
cago, rather-comcs with intent to in
fuse us with little genuine Yankee
vim and so; to eXpound to us, right
away, what sort OF Il word.lickin. show
that OF Chicago is to be, and how badly
We shall be loft ii, through slowncss or
supinencss, or folly OF any sort, We neg
lect our opportunity TO have u part
therein. Ii to DO associated with
that which is great is in any
sense to be great, then the
opportunity Colonc! Campbell offers
ought surely to be earnestly and imme-
diately cspoused. For ever since the
old Titanic days, or those contemporary
perhaps when, American lliawatha
varied with the clements, were there
promises OF such greatness MS i'll the
worlds lair ut Chicago. Listen to the
gallant colonel, and stretch wide all the
passages Of quick apprehension that
you may not be chokcd in the swelling.
A hundred million people that is the
beginning OF it 1t is near us difficult
to understand as fifty thousand pipers.
Fourteen thousand boarding houses
next, and five Thousand hotcls!! Thirty
thousand men at work night and day
on the grounds. II on cight-hour shifts,
an equivalent OF ninety thousand, :d.d
the opening day still eighteen months
in the future. Did We really imagine
We held international exhibitions in
Australia? 1t was all mistake. Our
shows, by comparison with this,
were but as penny booths at fair to
the glorics OF the Royal Opera. Still,
like brake Oh the wheel OF fast-rolling
Imagination comes the reflection that
Colonel Campbell is IN American, and
spread-eagleism comes rs natural to
him as stolid reserve 10 the Briton.
digger rivers, taller cataracts, louder
thunder, iorkeder lightning and more
money than all the world dare have"
the true American always claimed; and
true American and sol that ilk," Colo
mel Campbell, by his latest uttcrances,
must certainly be classed. Still, III
Colonel Campbell is hot as fused
lightning rod in the matter, are not we
colder than the South Pole? And shall
We not be looked on as outside the COM
ity OF civilized peoples ii We neglect
what is. undoubtedly a great-perhaps
IN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS