Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-08-03
FRED. w. HARRIS. Editor.
lahR d Tie South Dakota prsn Association
We ARE SUPREME.
Of This Seen at the
Worlds Fair.
.UR COUNTRY LEADS THE WORLD.

Tx OOUNTkY LEAUS d
It'll -
y Foreigners Amazed at the Grandest Object
lesson in Architecture the World Has
q Ever Seen--Other Lines in Which Amer
Il, ica E~xcels-The Rapid Advancement OF
n, Western Civilization.
ai WoRLD's FAIR, August 3.-lSpecial. i
Il Further consideration of the showing
made by the United States in this inter
4 pride in the achievements Of our country
men. This wholesale comparison with
Y The best productions of all the world is not
by any means to our disadvantage. The
exposition itself, its grandeur and vast
mess as q whole, the beauty of its archi-
Mcclure, the richness Of its statuary and
other ornamentation, forms the chief
glory of Americas works here. Foreign.
ers are amazed that the people of Chicago
SHOULD have produced not only the biggest
Esof all international fairs, but the most ar
tistic and impressive. High praise was
the verdict of a distinguished and critical
foreigner that the Worlds fair is the
grandest object lesson in architecture the
world has ever seen.
Three Of the structures in the White
City are models of architectural art and
viii live throughout all history, side by
side with the Acropolis, the cathedrals of
St. Peter and st. Paul. These are the ADJ
ministration building, whose designer
was recently decorated by the queen of
England, the Palace of Fine Arts and the
Agricultural palace. A fourth building,
the greatest ever placed under roof,
shows signally that the Americans lead
the world in structural iron work. The
rapidity with which this fair was created
has demonstrated the matchless energy
of Americans, and the processes by which
the work was done, and the erection of the
tall and stately office structures in Chi
cage itself, serve to call attention to the
fact that out here in the center of the
western continent a revolution in building
methods has been effected-a revolution
which Is having its influence upon build
ing and architecture throughout the world.
1t is noteworthy, moreover, that Chicago
is today the finest city intellectually
on the globe. Travellers say it contains a
larger number of habitations of scientific
and hygienic arrangement-equipped with
all modern appliances for health and com
fort-than any other municipality. This
is not the least of the conquests Of our
western civilization, notthe least evidences
of IL rapid advancement.
Go to the Palace of Agriculture and you
will see that this country easily leads all
other countries in variety, volume and
value of output from the soil. This is the
chief of all agricultural countries. Not
only is our output greatest in volume, but
it is greatest in proportion to population,
a sure measure of wealth. In all the APP
pliances of the farm, excepting perhaps
that scientific agriculture ON a small scale
which as yet has not become essential
here-the methods of fertilization and
soil-conservation which are followed
through necessity to such great extremes
abroad-we acknowledge no rivals. The
first reaping machine had its trial in this
country. Here about all the successful
l~abor-saving apparatus of the farm have
had their development. The variety and
usefulness of our farm machinery aston
ishes all beholders who come from foreign
lands. In the mere tools of the farm, the
hoes, rakes, axes, knives, etc, we also
maintain an easy superiority. In these
lines makers enjoy profitable export
trade, n their wares are initiated by for
eign manufacturers. In live stock and
dairy production we are now on a par with
the greatest countries of Europe in these
lines and are rapidly developing orr meth
DDS and perfecting the breeds of our ami
mails. In forestry we stand supreme. Ma
tnre endowed this favored land with o
wealth of timber, in quantity, variety and
commercial usefulness, which no other
country enjoys. AS workers ia woo3 for
all industrial and economic purposes we
cannot be approached. Our manufactures
Of specialties of wood, of furniture by part
machine and part hand labor, the houses
which we build when compared cost for
cost, are superior to anything known in
any other country. The woodworking
machinery designed by Americans and
built in their shops is used throughout
the world. 1t is initiated elsewhere but
not equaled.
In transportation we stand at the head.
We have greater railways, a greater mile
age, a greater number of trains and pas
sengers in proportion to population, more
travel by our people, than n other coun-
try. Though the locomotive had its origin
In England and France, America has done
Aioio w pSiicte ~ tudu any Quiet uhtlOu.
1t was this country that demonstrated
how cheaply railways and their rolling
stock and motive power could be built and
thus made the use of these means of trans
portation commercially possible the world
over, whereas il the English type had
been followed humanity in many u
tries would have waited another genera
tion for the rails and cars which confer
upon them SO many blessings. America
developed and specialized the railway as
no other country has done. The sleeping
cur, the dining car, the automatic brake,
the baggage-checking system, innumcr-
able signals and appliances which make
railroading safe, cheap and comfortable,
had their origin here.
In wagon and carriage building, both In
design and workmanship. we lead the
world. An hours walk through the
Transportation building will convince any
one OF this. In this field the ingenuity OF
our designers has been sufficient to con
struct a vehicle for every special need that
the m and industries of man may
present. Even in pleasure and ornamental
vehicles and carriages by far the finest as
well rs the most graceful and artistic ere.