The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-07-13

SALTWATER, MINNIE
ingly shut down work elsewhere and it
will continue so until all roads cease to
lead to the Worlds Fair. AS far as
can see, all this magEifcence and dis
play will not benefit the poor; the rich
enjoy it and grow richer; the poor can
not see it, and grow poorer; thus fulfill
ing the Lords saying: ''To him that
hath, it shall be given, and from him
that hath not, shall be taken even what
he hath" III. T. W.
AS l understand, the original object
was to have Columbian Exposition,
thoroughly National affair. Has the
the original intent been carried out? |
should say not. According to the de-
cislon of Chief Justice Fuller, the Ma
tiOnal commission has no authority,
and the Fair is controlled by the local
commission. The decision says that it
is not National affair but local one.
l know nothing about law, but l sup
pose the decision is good in legal way;
but think it was poor policy to bring
the case into the courts at all. 1t sacri-
feed too much dignity for few dollars.
The nations of the earth were not in
vited to participate by the city of Chi
cago, but by the National government;
they mere not invited there to see how
fine we had got the science of legal hair
splitting, but to see the advancement
which has been made in all branches
of industry and art. MAC.
Xxx
AS an American labOrer l look upon
the Worlds Fair as a great place of in
tereSt and education; because it has
brought together from all parts of the
world, all sorts of things that even the
most intelligent labOrer has no chance
to see, hear or read of. The American
laborer has to pay for his holidays when
he takes them; therefore, Sunday is his
natural day for taking in the Worlds
Fair; yet lot of howlers wanted to
close it on Sunday. Why don't they
prevent railroad men from working on
Sunday? Because they might want to
travel and it would be inconvenient
If wOrkingman or woman who is busy
six days Of the week do nothing worse
than 60 to the Worlds Fair on Sunday
they would be alright. Sunday Worlds
Fair visitors will stand better before
God than many of those howlers against
the use of Sunday for such or any other
legitimate recreation.
AN AMERICAN LABORER.
Xxx
One of those antique bits of fossilized
wisdom asserts in time of peace pre-
pare for war;" The sense of the prOverb
is fallacious, it should read, " in times
of peace" endeavor to perpetuate peace
Peace enlightenS the world; war plung-
es it into the darkness of degeneration.
The Worlds Fair has done great deal
to insure the future peace of the world
Instead of meeting in hostile opposition
upon the field of war; the leading ma
tiOns have met in the arena of industry
to contest for the laurels of peace. In
the grand amphitheater at Chicago all
the leading powers vie with one another
for the lilies of peace. France meets
her hereditary foe, Germany, and greets
the "Fatherland" with friendly hand
Russia, England and Turkey have en-
tered the lists of peace to contest for a
prize in the arena of science and handi-
craft. The Worlds Fair is grand in
spring victory of peace and points the
way to elevation. 1t will do more to
promote the progress of civilization
than any other exposition of its kind;
for the people of to-day are mentally
more capable of appreciating it's aim
than their ancestors ever were.
&C.
Xxx
consider Chicago's White City to
be the dream of the age. Whether
dream soon forgotten at the first mile
stone to the millennium, the future alone
can tell; it marks the most brilliant era
in the worlds industrial history; an era
when America stands the last and
truest nation on earth, made so through
peaceful industry. Only on neutral
soil could the nations vie with each
other and this rivalry will lead to a
truer knowledge of international depen-