The Portland daily press., 1893-06-21

tentlon. After all, the greatesv power
visible in this worlds fair is that Of
money. No people are above wanting
a currency which they can take home.
no matter where they live, and find il
to be as good there as here. II Won go
to Buffalo Bills show, just outside the
fair, and see him, not only with his
American Indians and cowboys and
United States soldiers, but with his
Cossaclzs, Arabs, Syrians, ETC., YOU
must reason that what brought all
those people, flying the flags of differ
emit nations, into a common arena. was
the coin which gave them employment.
There may have been minor influences
at work, such as pride of nationality
and of personal strength, but to be fed,
clothed, sheltered and mounted, and
to be able to save little something to
take back, were the prime induce
ments. In like manner the people of
the nations, and frequently the in
vasion of one nation by another, are
the results Of needs. The fall of the
Roman empire was caused by the Ber-
bers getting loose and falling upon the
Cloths, who were banked up against
the Roman frontier, and the Romans
would not let the Goths come in, from
tyranny of race and edict, and the
Goths said: eve must come in. for
our women and children are being
murdered" and when they came in
Rome disappeared and Rome became
Gothic.
AS the newest nation of the world.
taking into our composition all the
other nations, we learn from this fair
how ineradicable is heredity. AS you
go from school to school here. YOU see
that every nation regulates its COM
monest custom on some almost i'm
mutable form. The Berber turns up
the toes of his shoes, the Hindoo and
Chinaman build their steep1es like
lines of successive crooks. The. Turk
and Moor can conceive of no other arch
than the horseshoe and the moon.
The Frenchman does very little that
has not a sensuous idea in it; the
Englishman must be didactic, like John
Wycliffe, and covetous at the same
time, or he is not happy. The Spaniard
will have blood, like his Carthaginian
and Roman forefathers. The italian
will work in macaroni and plaster.
The German must be eating and drink
ing; some must get drunk nationally,
and some must dance nationally, and it
is all heredity.
Yet, in examining all these versatile
products, we think we see a channel
through the history of nations which,
however frozen or foggy for periods, at
last clears itself and comes forward.
1t is the channel of knowledge Coop
Grating with the channel of trade.
The exchange of the products of warm
and cold countries, which has been go
ing on from, before any time of recorded
history, yet controls the world, and the
arts are like sugar upon the child's
cake, to assist this action. The Greek
and his contemporaries to the east in,
India and China, the italian, who sue
ceeded the Greek when the Greek had
lost his nationality through being con-
quered by the Turk and the Arab, these
are the powers that still control
great exhibitions. ALI the effective
architecture you see is Greek, modified |
by Italy. Wherever building is to be |
decorated here by nimble fingers,
which have inherited the fanciful fric-- |
tiontof art, you see Italians doing the |
work. From Italy the channel comes |
onward to France, and perhaps the
greatest name in modern history is that
of the king of France who brought the
arts from Italy to his own country. A |
vicious fellow in himself, unchaste, |
untrue, egotistical, Francis l. has more |
credit with mankind for bringing the |
artists out of Italy than the United |
States will derive for having induced |
such stream of heterogeneous immi-
grafton to it's shores. So Spain had |
her brief and glorious day, when she
became disciple to the Italians idea
and gave him three poor little banks to
try the western main with. So Eng
land, knowing nothing herself except
murder and rapine, at the conclusion
of the war of roses allowed some refu-
gee Italians in its port to take the
kings signet, and go otherwise unpaid,
to discover the United States for him.
Whatever the Moors learned they de-
rived from the Greeks, and the Italians
got in by the Moors from the back
door. We look at the variety of vases
here from all nations, and find that
what the Greeks did not know about a
vase it is useless for later nations to
Try TO IND. GATH.