The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-04-15
ENGLAND AND THE WORLDS FAIR

i There is no use in attempting to
disguise the fact, says the Chicago
! Inter-O Ocean, that England is not risin D
| tos"the height of the great argument 3
OF the Worlds Columbian Expostio !"
There will be somewhat extensi n.
display of British arts and MAJ We
features, but while Germany is clf lu-
oring for more space than can bf I'M
! lotted to her, while France is ben al
a SURPRISING exhibit of her resoU t on
and while Austria and Russia rces,
alive to the greatness of the OBJ are
tunity England is not making 81 )ortu-
forts as reasonably might be ey ch eff
OF her. 1t is true that from pected
ming of Sl25, 900 the amount of begin
has been granted to the Roy 100000
mission as a fund for buil6 al Com
general uses: and, as we ling and
the British department ave said
from empty, but it does i'll be far
likely thatit will be as W not seem
it ought to be, either as re ell filed as
tity or quality of exhibits CARDS GUAM
We give due credit, to
not be given, to the % much can
made by Mr.. James trong efforts
Royal Commission; by )redge, of the
life Owen: by Sir Her sir Philip Cum
able secretary Of the lry Wood, the
sion; and by MI. British Commits
American CommlssH Mccormick, the
lumSian Exposition )ner of the Co.
there is an amount but after all
Britain that exceed ,fapathy in Great
extraordinary boun S the ordinary, or
.arence We max DIS of British indif-
the natural sloT due allowance for
start and we ma yness in making
the soreness OF Ike due allowance for
turers from the he British manufac-
lev bill. But, effects of the McIZin-
are made, we after these allowances
| the apathy or still feel astOniShed at
! an important Great Britain on such
i Let it be occasion
the McKinl granted that the effect of
! intendedtt ey bill be just what it was
American } be- namely,tO so stimulate
. as to max manufacturing enterprise
p independ e this country commercially
ii ain but ent not only of Great Brit
n. ed, tho IF all Europe. Let it be grant
p gether Ugh it never can be true alto
:" he to , that the result of the bill will
il of thu shut British manufactures out
pou1 United States. Yet the same
Rms be true as to Germany, France,
!. ore STA, and all other countries. The
lat wi Attest sufferer by England's apathy
his ey IL be England. Germany will crowd
EN- 8, cry inch of space allotted to it with
implies Of what it has to offer in the
markets Of the world, and the best
= ;Sl buyers in the world will be there to
on see them France will send its choic-
= io est productions Of the higher and the
.o+ lower arts, and the most discerning
people of the earth will be there to
view them. Russia will make exhib-
OIL m its of the progress of a nation that
nj in did not build it's first vessel until
u old century and half had passed since
~ ,ers Englands victory over the Spanish
Armada gave her that naval suprem-
acy which has gone unQuestioned till
o,oo of late years England's colonies are
~, likely to be better represented than
80. England herself.
,;sio, While we shall regret exceedingly,
oh,nno on account of the Exposition itself
any shortcomings as to quantity or
quality in the British department,
q d. the yet we shall not be without the con-
not all ISOLATION Of knowing that the gather
H. wards ed representatives of the nations of
f+bot the world will separate with convic-
N ,,s oro tion that the United States has sur
n passed the mother country in the pro-
4 ducton of samples of all that they
X need, and of all that they must buy.
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