The Portland daily press., 1893-06-19
THE ARTS At THE FAIR.
Mechanics Leads Them Ill With a
Great Display. r
What Has Been Accomplished in Science,
Physics and Mathematics Since the
Time of Colunab1s-A Good Time for
Another Great Exposition.
icoPYRIeHT. 1881

fCOPYRIGHT, 1885,
Which is the greatest of the arts as
proved by this great exhibition
I should say that mechanics still led
all the arts About everything we have
found out in astronomy and physics
strengthens the view of Calico and
Keppler, that the mechanical motions
must be known first before anything
can be demonstrated. Mathematics is
but the key to mechanics. The law of
gravity is only one of the findings,
and subsequent astronomy has me-
chanics for it's groundwork. Given the
influence of bodies upon each other,
their size, density, ETC., and the figure
they describe in their motion will be
known. The detection of a distant
body without a visible cause indicates
an invisible cause, but that is still an
other star. which forthwith we seek
with our telescopes to ascertain, and
thus our brethren of the planets have
sometimes been discovered only be-
cause we felt their influence and had
never seen their face. Energy, the law
of the universe, is also the law of this
exhibition. The still paintings, even
those which seem to have the least
Millet, required all the energy Of his
being to make them. The immense
machines invented for steam, electrici-
ty and hydraulics and power testify to
the same great fact, that the world Is a
mechanism and mechanic together.
Perhaps the greatest triumphs in this
exhibition and evidence of mans
progress are the telescope materials
and those having reference to optics,
which, as science, is but the lamp to
disclose hidden mechanism to US. All
the grouping of Spinoza and many
more to defy the gigantic forces in ma
ture, without personifying them, seems
to still move toward the source of
energy.
Here is a city standing by these
triurnphs of art and science, which is
suggestive to us of the failure of all
great cities in the past to do more
than record knowledge and leave it.
The multitude in Chicago, like the
multitude in Ephesus, and every
where, knows but smatter Of all this
knowledge, and goes on pursuing it's
object, which is to give 1t subsistence,
pleasure and excitement. Yet the
force of the exhibition upon such
multitude must be greater than any
force we have known in the
past. The Oldest university in
the world is said to be eight hundred
years old. Here is an exhibition
whose first modern predecessor was
commenced only about forty years ago.
One cannot help feeling, as he looks
arounda upon these triunphs and
measures his own comprehension Of
them and that of his immediate neigh
bors, that discipline and freedom are
the two great powers which should go
hand in hand; that freedom without
discipline is very willfu1 possession,
like man travelling with wild
beast, and that discipline without
freedom brings intolerance, almost
equal to the forms of intolerance with
which knowledge has been contend
ing.
The utility of nations makes study
as we look through this fair. The ma
tions here appear to better advantage
than almost anywhere, because none
of them, unless it be little Chill, or
some dyspeptic power which has drunk
blood, does not come here to compete.
At the last French exhibition the Ger
mans put in poor appearance. Ger
many and France are here side by side,
in equal favor with our people. It is
manifest that Europe has disease it
will be long time being cured Of. and
shown by the popularity of beaten
power for the time being. When
France was mixing in with the quar-
rels of all other states, as in the Cri-
mean war, and the italian war, and
the Mexican war. not all the enlight-
eminent of Golden could make her pop
ular in England; but when she is
beaten by Germany the other powers
hasten to befriend her, plainly proving
that Europe cannot bear to see any one
power long supreme.
It is manifest that each of the Euro
pean powers has jealousy of foreign
immigration. We almost alone, of the
greater powers, continue to receive
people of all nations. But we are not
in the sense of Europe fixed nation;
our area is more potent than our COM
mercial system. Itmasters everything
in the country. We are still short of
people to equip the immense empire
we have taken in hand, and this is
shown by the extravagant prices which
prevail. 1 understand that the servant
girls at the Chicago hotels of the best
quality are paid twenty-five dollars a
month. 1t was said during the open
ing weeks of the exhibition that COM
mon carpenters commanded ten dollars
s. day. The price of living in coun-
trv replete with wheat and beef and
fish is extraordinary; six dollars day
is expected by the leading hotels Of
chicago, WHICH are very numerous.
No exhibition in the history of the
world hitherto has been pivoted upon
the idea of learning as much as this
one. Columbus was the learner and
the learned. He was the navigator OF
physics, the only man who, up to his
TINA had aya7- left his own claimant IN