The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-23
GOODMAN At THE FAlR.
An Interesting Letter from a Fa-
miliar Writer.
THE LESSONS TAUGHT.
Most Brilliant Picture the World Has
Ever Seen.
The Congress of Reiigions-ssGod Has
Made of One Blood All the Nations
of TIE Earth"-Utah's Part
mt the Exposition.

Chicago, Oct 22.-The Worlds fair is
literally 'a thing of beauty, and a
JOY forever" No attempt at descrip-
ton is adequate to do justice to its
absolute perfection in all its arrange
ments, its combination of taste and
utility, in short in everything that was
contemplated in its inception and has
been justified by its results. 1t is but
only a revelation of the present, but
it will be an unfailing "reminiscences for
the future. Millions of people have
come to see it, and have taken it away
with them to their homes. photo
graphed in their memories to be ever
present before them like pictures upon
their walls and panoramas of great
scenes and events Old men will carry
it with them to their graves and the
impress that it has made upon the
minds of children will remain there
for all the years of their lives. 1t has
been an object lesson more instructive
than libraries of books, lectures or the
teachings of the schools. 1t has taken
the place of foreign travel, and has
not only brought our whole country
together to intensity and cement our
patriotism, but it has broadened our
vision in enabling us to see all the
nations of the world who have come
here to exhibit themselves, their IN
dustries, their habits and their rell-
gions in one focus before our eyes.
While it has made us proud of our
own achievements, it has modified our
self sufficiency, and this is not the least
of the benefits it has conferred. 1t has
been sermon preached from the text,
"God has made of one blood all the
nations of the EARTH and con-
sciousIy or not, we have listened
to 1t and we now believe in its inspira-
ton. And yet there are some anoma-
lies about it that we cannot reconcile.
We invite commerce from abroad ask
ing foreign producers to bring their
wares for exhibition, and Haunting be-
fore their eyes our protective tariff,
the object of which it is to exclude
them. This is not commercial or in
dustrial consistency, and its absurdlty
should be as apparent to ourselves as
it is to those whom we have invited to
our Shores extending to them hos
pitality such as one man would confer
upon another, with the condition that
he should pay him for his board. The
fair has doomed one of the worst fea-
lures of this odious system TO speedy
humiliation. The committee in Con-
gress having charge of the revision of
the tariff cannot fail to respond to the
universal desire which is now more
than ever pronounced that all sculp-
ture and paintings should henceforth
be admitted free of duty, for they have
come to be classed definitely as objects
Of necessity. The greater the impor-
tation of them, not only the greater
pleasures they will give, but the
greater will be the desire on the part
of our own artists to emulate the tai
ent and skill that has produced them.
This remark holds good in regard to
articles of utility as well as to arti-
cles of taste. If some means could be
found to raise our national revenue
from other sources. so that all the in
dustrial exhibits we see at this great
exposition, could be released from a
| tariff import-the theory under which
our nominally fee institutions exist,
of the greatest good to the greatest
number, would be carried out to it's
righteous conclusions not only for con-
sumers at large who now meet with
so little consideration, but for our ar
| tisans themselves who would thrive
far better by administering to them
the stimulus of competition than by
continuing the sedative doses of pro-
lection. The little English railroad
engine on exhibition which was i'm
ported free in 1881 taught our ma
chinists not only to build for our use
such magnificent locomotives as that we
see by its side, but to export them to all
quarters of the globe Could foreign
built ships be imported on the same
conditions we should no longer have
| cause to complain of the depression of
the American carrying trade, but our
domestic shipbuilders who are now pro-
| tected to the extent of absolute pro
| lection and who consequently lack an
| incentive to improvement, would soon
supply all our needs without any de-
nand from abroad. There is another
anomaly made apparent by this EXPOSE
ton. We have lately had a congress
of all the religions of the world in
Chicago. All honor is due to the man
who conceived this grand idea, what
ever his motive may have been. Per-
| haps it was to bring all the creeds to-
| gether and to demonstrate to their ad-
| herents the superiority of his own
particular Christian sect, or, on the
contrary, as we will charitably hope
it may have been to teach his bigote5
coreligioists that they are not the spe-
clal favorites of heaven, but that the
| Almighty is the
| Father of all in every age
In every cline adored
| BY saint. by savage or by sage
JEHOVAH JoVe or Lord. F"
| At all events, this was the grand re-
suit accomplished. When the address
ses of all the different delegates are
published in book form. no better
reading can be commended to the
MINDS and hearts of mankind who are
| seeking after truth. They will find il
on almost every page be the author
what he may, Christian, Mahomedan
| Buddhist or heather.
Jesus was not the only great nronbat
who came to announce that its under
lying principle is peace on earth and
good will TO man. With this thought
| In Inind we strolled into the govern
/ ment and Krupp buildings. where we
| saw exhibited every possible annli-
ance Tor the destruction of human life
having just read in the morning no,
| pers the account of a projected war in
Europe, where millions Of men are to
be pitted against each other at the can.
mons mouth, and ironclad monsters
are TO be fitted out with hattaries
rams and torpedoes, each TO do its hest
TO send the crews of the Others into
eternity mo
Americans in general have not much
respect Tor antiquity. They some
times talk amusingly of "Old Massa-
chusetts. odd Vermont" and even of
ola ONO and Indiana, perhaps Of old
Utah and Idaho, but the adjective de-
notes endearment rather than aee ~
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