St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-20
CANNOT LAG BEHIND.
Minnesota Must BE Properly Rel
rasaDtad 81 tho WORLDS Fair

Minnesota Must Be Properly Rep
resented at the Worlds Fair.
Your editorial of Mondays issue on
the worlds fair, remarked j. o, Bar
rett, must commend itself to pub
lie approval. You are aware that
majority of the late delegate convention
voted in favor CT an extra session of the
legislature to raise the additional sum
of S1OO.O They saw no other feasible
way. Since then we are all afloat again.
Minnesota cannot afford to try this
method so long as a division of senti-
ment prevails. Without unity we can
accomplish little or nothing. There is
no question, after all there may be said
and done, but that the popular heart
beats in favor of placing Minnesota
fairly before the world as an efficient
competitor for the prize.
think YOU give voice to the popular
feeling when you say that money can
and, no doubt. will be raised OH the
strength of reimbursing the donors at
the next legislature. Such policy has
repeatedly been tested with success in
other business ventures of a public
nature. You well say:
Manufacturers of building materials,
owners of quarrieS and saw mills. archl-
tectS and decorators may contribute
their wares and their services for the
construction Of state building, and
the railroads may give free tranSpOrta-
ton for the things which may be needed
for the same purpose. Individual pro-
ducers may exhibit their plant and the
states appropriation may be reserved
for the cost of grouping, arranging and
caring for them.
This is an economical and practical
method. But more than eXhibitiOnal
supplies are needed. Money is needed
for every move there is made. 1t seems
to me that when the right appeal is
made and commendable example IS
set, it will be contagious and extend
over the entire state. 1t also lmpresseS
me that no specialized method IS APP
plicable to all localities. If editors and
other public men will evoke spirit of
emulation among the towns and cOun-
ties by such methods as best suit them.
and furnish such exhibits as belong to
their special locality, we can accom-
plish what is wanted. Mineral coun-
ties would raise money to put their
minerals on exhibition; numbering
counties their lumber: manufacturing
towns their manufactured wares; agrl-
cultural counties their cereals, vege-
tables. fruits and stock. Thus our en-
tire state would be represented in the
exhibit on vast scale.
Our beautiful Minnesota cannot af-
ford to lag behind. There are those
among us who do not realize the lasting
benefits of the worlds fair upon all the
| people Oh the earth. There grows out
of it a closer union among nations,
prophetic union of language and liter
allure; of science and art; of civil insti-
tutions evolving brotherhood of govern
ment. We should also take into con-
sideratiOn how well it tends to solve the
economic questions now disturbing en-
lightened society: how it will facilitate
educational advancement; how it will
install international reciprocity of com
merce; how it will evoke inquiry into
the causes of crime, pauperism, insanity
and mental imbecility; how it will EN-
phasize international law for interna-
tional peace and justice. Are not such
benefits worth paying for? Let US all
think of this grand opportunity of the
centuries. Let us act TO install a real
fraternity of the nations of the earth
our Minnesota to the front.