Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-17

| the 'front.', we Salu WHdt- events are
fully verifying, that whether the fair
should be be open or not, ought to
be taken up and decided on grounds
of business policy.
Cincinnati Times-Star: The gen.
tlemen who boycott the fair must
boycott street and Steam railways,
for they all transact more or"1ess
business on Sunday. =
Streator Free Press: In the mat
ter of closing the fair on Sundays,
the Sabbatarian and the street fakir,
like the lamb and the lion, are lying
down together.
Omaha Bee: An open fair on the
first day of the week would be both a
/ moral and an economical advantage
to tens of thousands of working peo-
pie in and around Chicago.
Globe Democrat: The decision in
favor of the opening of the Worlds
| fair on Sunday is sensible and
proper one, and the result will be a
largely increased attendance.
Bloomington Bulletin: /. The ac-
ton of the Worlds fair directory in
voting to open the exposition Sun
days, will be approved by four-fifths
of the great American people.
Kansas City journal: The partial
Sunday opening of the Worlds fair,
if it prove satisfactory, will soon be
abandoned in response to the public
demand for complete opening.
Philadelphia Record: Puritanical
bigotry, such as that which in east
ern cities locks the museums and
| libraries, prohibits concerts and
closes casinos is neither recognized,
nor understood in Chicago.
Chicago Dispatch: This practical
ly denationalizes the fair, but no one
who understands the situation and
has at heart the interests of the en-
position will regret such an outcome.
Open the gates.
Denver Sun: The animation of
the pulpit, the saloon, and the gam
bling den to close the gates of the
fair on Sunday is one that the com
mon sense of the country does not
view with satisfaction.
Decatur Review: If Sunday OPEN
ing is to be justified it is because the
exhibits will exert educating and ell
evating influences. Unless the build
ings are opened the fair degenerates
into catch penny-grab game.
Denver sun: These chickering's
should cease. as the people at large
are becoming disguised with such
unseemly proceedings, and will ulti-
mately become lukewarm in the mat
ter OF aiding. by their presence. in
the success of the great undertaking.
San Francisco Chronicle: The
a. no hA 70,
the Worlds fair grounds on Sunday
lar desire for the opening OF the gates
to the great show on the only leisure
day of Woodworking people.
Denver Times; 1t has been de-
cided to open the Worlds fair
grounds on Sunday at a nominal adj
mission price, but to keep the build
ings tightly closed. 1t is hard to
see how any one. be he Sabbath
closer or Sabbath opener, can object
to this arrangement.
Chicago Journal: The Journal
congratulates the directory on hav-
| ing accepted the honorable, but
| financially onerous alternative by
| which the Worlds fair gates will be
| opened to the common people on the
| day set apart by the common consent
| of Christians for them.
St. 10 Gazette: The directors of
| the Worlds Columbia exposition set
tied the Sunday opening question by
abrogating their contract with con-
gress to close on the Lords day in
consideration of an appropriation of
| 81, 500, 900. The money will be re-
turned and the fair will run seven
days in the week.
New York Mercury: There is lit
tie doubt that the question of Sunday
opening of the Worlds fair will soon
be settled in favor of popular right
| and Justice, and the entertainment
and instruction of the masses. The
| forcing of MANY thousands to remain
| idle and listless over Sunday at
heavy expense is an evil already rec
| orniZed as intolerable.
| ST. 10 Herald: The decision of the
| Worlds fair directors to throw open
jackson park to the public Sunday,
during the continuance of the expo
( sition, is meeting with the unquali-
fled approval of all, save the narrow
religionists, who in the name of Sab
| bath observance, would close its
treasures of art, science and skill to
| the toiling thousands who have that
day and that day only for rest, recre-
| alton and pleasure.