The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1893-10-28
THE WORLDS FAIR.
Estimated Sum of Money This
County and State has Poured
Into Chicago.
Ex-Governor KNOTS Prophecy

nc proprietor OF one HOtcl,tnC
University, on Congress street in
Chicago, says that he has enter
tanned over 700 people from this
city since the opening Of the
Worlds Fair. There is no doubt
that more Frankfort people
stopped at the University than at
any other hotel in Chicago, but it
is reasonable to suppose that twice
as many visitors were quartered in
other hotels and private houses.
Estimating that 900 people from
this city and county have attended
the Fair, and which it is believed
is not far from the actual number,
and fixing an average Of $40 for
each person, the total amount Of
money that has been lost to this
city and county alone will aggre-
gate $50, 900. 1t has been stated
that no less than 200, 900 Ken
tuckians have visited the Fair, and
if this be true. the loss in dollars
to the whole State at the same
ratio has been So, 900, 900. The
benefits to the visitors in an edu-
cational point of view are un-
quesotined, but the following ex-
cerpts from ex-Gov. Knott's argn-
ment before the Court of Appeals
on the constitutionality Of the
100000 appropriation are, never
theless, food. for reflection in these
times of need and stringency:
1T would be a magnificent adver-
tisement for somebody no doubt. II
would probably boom the price OF
coal lands, but the court knows, as
we'll as I do, that nearly the whole Of
our best coal and other mineral lands
has already been monopoiized by,
foreign millionaries who are alien to
our soil and strangers to our institu-
tions. 1t might increase the demand
for our timbers, but they too have. in
a great measure, been already COB
bled up by foreign spectators. 1t
would no doubt rebound to the inter
est of our various railroad corpora
tions, but they are also owned and con-
trolled almost entirely by foreign cap
ital. The great thoroughfare of trade
that runs in front of this capital is
under the dominion of syndicate of
foreign Jews, the Rothchilds, the
money kings of Europe. Every great
industrial Interest in the Common
wealth is in the hands of consolidated
capital in some form or other. except
agriculture, and it is proposed to tax
that for the aggrandiz sment of the
others. Why should the farmer who
tolls through the summers heat and
the winters cold, or the mechanic
who YIELDS the hammer or shoves the
plane from "early dawn to dewy eve,p
be taxed to promote the prosperity
of their more favored ncighbors, the
mine owner and manufacturer? What
com pensation will they receive for
the portion Of their scanty earnings
taken from them by the tax-gatherer
for that purpose?
sit is argued, however, that this
great exposition will be great edu
Gator. But whom will it educate?
Out of the two million people in Ken
lucky it is possible, it is probable, in
fact, that hundred Thousand may be
able TO see 1.-The big show" at Chica-
go, which will be just as big, and
just as instructive without this
tax upon them Of 100000 as
with it; it follows, therefore, that
the remaining nineteen hundred
thousand must be compelled to con-
tribute to their tuition. Is it fair?
Is it republican equality? Is it equal
and exact justice? Is it consistent
with q constitution of government
ordained and established to protect
the property of the high and the low,
the rich and the poor alike?
''As an evidence of the tremendous
popular clamor under which this act
was passed, have but to remind the
court that when it was understood
that the Auditor would not pay the
hundred thousand dollars, unless
compelled to do 80 by the courts,
and that the courts were pretty GER
tain not to compel him, "The Louis
ollie Times" made the most earnest
efforts for two weeks to raise the sum
by private subscription, and at the
end of that time abandoned the pro-
iact in diauuat having raisad only