Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-05-01
THE WORLDS FAIR.

the highway OF time since the iane"
Genoese navigator disembarked ut san
Salvador and threw open the gates OF
n new world. Previous to that the
Azores were the limit Of voyaging
westward and the ships had gone no
further south than to round the nfs'
great projection into the atlantic from
the African coast. with all this ana
the meagerness OF the capacity OF sail
Ing craft at that time considered, TO-
rether with the primitive and inefli'
Client scientific apparatus available, the
voyage across the waste OF waters was
like plunging into the depths oil space
I'm quest Of n new star. II was rem
dered all the more irksome, difficult
and questionable by reason OF every
thing resting on faith In onc man
through whose persistence aud
the providentIal interventions which
came. ships were obtained and
manned, followed By series
OF reverses anu disrouragemenis, each
tending to diminish the confidence
10 long in forming and to increase the
reluctance thcn 30 PR valent to render
ing aid. II was herculean task TO
obtain anything, for the masses were
ignorant and poor, the others were
naughty and self satisfied. Lisbon
confined the only scientific society
and Portugal would do nothing. How
many men In this day OF fast ships,
perfected Instruments, willing crews,
and societies aud governments ready
10 aid, presuming there to be an undis-
covered continent In some unknown
and distant quarter, could be found
TINT, In the face OF rebuff after rebuff,
encouragement at every turn, poverty
almost beyond expression and the
first attempt on which everything
seemed to hang proving fail
ure, would not have aban-
doned tho enterprise in despair and
let the soul's grand conception perish
where It was born? Is II not plain
that whore superhuman and appar-
entity impossible task il to DO perform.
cd, there arises Mt the proper time
and In tho proper place the proper man
TO do it---one without whom II could
not or would not be done ut all?
Christopher Columbus was an In
spired man; he had work tv perform
and the melting away Of oil barriers
erected by unyielding nature anu
unfriendly man between him and II
must have been as plain to him when
petitioning courts and begging for
bread ~ when with his mortal vision
he behsld II. Little by little incredul.
ity gave way 10 thinking ana reason.
ing, and eventually behold upon tho
broad, billowy breast Of the Atlantic
n little feet with gal,
liant crew bidding adicu to
the Old World and headed for--no
one know where, no ono but Column
bus, and he could not tell
That was the beginning OF the grand.
est contamination by man relating to
old Mother Earth. Today, amid all
the pomp, pride ana circumstance
winch the cultivated MIMI could de-
wise or the trained hand execute, the
pinnacle OF that contamination was
reached anu crowned In the presence
oil vast muitituues from beyond the
seas ana from all parts oil Columbia,
representing every cline from the
equator 10 inc poles every condition
from the prince 10 the peasant, every
form Oh worship from the intelligent
ana deVout follower In the footsteps OF
the.Msster down 10 ana Including the
worshiper Of craven images or The sun,
every occupation In HE anu well
nigh every product oil every land
--the greatest anu grandest expo
sition OF when history gives us
any account was opened 'he gates oil
the White CITY were thrown ajsr, the
ponuerous mechanism was set In mo-
ZION, inc countless OBJECTS oil interest
anu curiosity ana mechanism and art
were brought into view.
II was In every way fitting that the
chief magistrate OF the United States
should be assisted In the work OF open
Ing the Fair by lineal descendant Of
the man through whose mission not
ha IL