The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-11-28

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aminer comments on Chicago's
success in the following extracts
Columbus discovered one new
world, Chicago has revealed another.
The America upon which the great
Fair closed is an altogether different
America in the eyes of mankind from
that upon which the Fair opened.
The rank of the United States among
the nations has been changed. We
have proved our right to higher
consideration. Not alone has the
foreign view of the republic been
altered but our own view of ourselves.
To Europe the United States was a
country, which if undeniably rich,
powerful and intelligent and destined
TO occupy master place in the world,
was still young, crude, boastful and
intensely material in its civilization.
1t was yet to be awakened to the
finer things of life. The Columbian
Exposition it was expected would be
large and costly and splendid with a
barbaric splendor of riches. That
| America, the rawest of great nations,
could surpass the French, the most
polished, In architecture and fine arts,
was not dreamed by men anywhere
outside our borders, and by few
within them. Nearly all of those few
lived in Chicago. With a courage
that seemed to the sympathetic
foolhardy and to the cynical
ludicrous, that great city chal-
lenged the country through con-
gress to give to her this tremendous
enterprise; and congress, with wis
dom that was widely questioned, but
has been gloriously confirmed, placed
the trust in her hands rather than in
! those of New York, the Oldest,
wealthiest, and therefore presumably
the most highly civilized of American
communities. Possibly New York
could have done as we'll with the Fair
as Chicago, but it is not likely. If
there is in her much of the quality
which was the primary requisite of
success-public spirit-she has not
chosen in recent times to make it
manifest. Public spirit Chicago has
in abundance. There is direct COM
munication between the civic patriot
ism of her citizens and their pockets.
New York did not disdain to call on
the country to aid her in erecting her
monument to Grant, or to beg for the
pennies of the Union to furnish
pedestal. for Bartholdi's Liberty
Chicago, instead of offering up suppli-
cations, took up home collection of
S10,00O,000 for the Fair. In-spite of
New York's sneering hostility, in
spite of the skepticism and languor of
q large portion of. the land, Chicago
faced the world undaunted, and even
tually communicated to us all some of
her ardor. Many sources contributed
toward the being and triumph of the
Fair, but the honor and glory of
its dazzling success belongs in
fullest measure to Chicago. She
babe the earth to come and be-
hold an American international eX-
position. The earth came and saw the |
greatest exposition ever held-great- |
est in size, in cost, in interest and in |
artistic excellence. Broad herself, |
Chicago made the Fair national. To |
the genius and talent of the United |
States she held out her purse and |
said "Come and do your best to create
beauty" And at her bidding the
brains, the heart, the enthusiasm of |
and reared q city on Lake Michigan's |
shore the like of which the world
never before beheld Among the
works of man it was what Yosemite is
among the works of nature-bewilder-
ing in its prodigiousness, unique in its
loveliness. Chicago has made it
known that the republic has reached
2 stage of development which was
thought to be still far in the future.
She has taught the world and us that
we have made tremendous progress
beyond mere money getting for
sake. At Chicago's touch
our eyes have been opened to our
capacities for those things which
ldorn private and national life.
like other people, have
still much to learn, but it is Chicago
hat has pointed out the way, pre-
pared the road and impaired courage.
chicago is American. She lives in
he present and turns her face to an
American future, not to Dutch and {
English past to which the spectacles {
If pride and the kind mist of time
end an aristocratic aspect. Chicago
ests her claim to greatness ON great
Kings done, not on traditional leader ;
hip, hereditary privilege. She is
Wiling to do battle for her place by
in service. She under
tands the country because she is oft.
The new red blood of the west bounds {
trough her veins. She glories in her {
Americanism. There are no Anglo j
in Chicago. Her men are i
cal and have foreheads. There is in 8
enSe local pride, but il is rational and S
,irile and finds expression in ways t
hat enforce Chicago's right to stand q
Or the country. The Chicago of the t
Chicago which New York I
onceived, pictured and had accepted
disappeared when the Columbian
Exposition opened.
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